People

Altai Consulting leverages a core team of multidisciplinary experts supported by local staff and networks in the countries where we operate

  • Rodolphe Baudeau - Lead Partner

    Rodolphe Baudeau is a founder and lead partner of Altai Consulting. He oversees Altai’s large telecom, media, FMCG and industrial development projects in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Rodolphe also works with multilateral and bilateral agencies as well as governments on strategic planning, program design, and private sector development.

    Rodolphe has worked on engagements covering more than 30 different economic sectors in more than 20 countries, allowing him to develop a thorough understanding of the dynamics of emerging markets.

    Prior to launching Altai Consulting, Rodolphe was a Marketing Manager at the L'Oréal Consumer Goods Division in Paris (France), in charge of eight international brands, and a brand manager for LVMH Group in Sydney (Australia).

    Rodolphe holds an MBA from ESSEC-Paris, one of the leading business schools in Europe.

  • Emmanuel de Dinechin - Lead Partner

    Emmanuel is a founder and lead partner of Altai Consulting. His main area of expertise is strategic advisory in emerging markets with a focus on telecom and media, utilities, FMCG, retail and financial services. Emmanuel serves a wide range of clients in Africa and in the Middle East, ranging from global players and industry leaders to smaller local actors.

    Prior to launching Altai, Emmanuel was a strategy consultant for Monitor Group, a US-based consulting firm. There he worked extensively with private businesses and public organizations. He developed strategic marketing plans for the European operations of a US-based telecom company and for the French branch of Europe’s leading brewer. He also advised the municipality of Port Elizabeth, the fifth largest in South Africa, on its socio-economic strategy.

    Emmanuel holds an MBA from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales), the leading European School of Management, with a Major in Economics. Emmanuel is a Professor of International Affairs at the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris), France’s leading school of international relations.

  • Laurence Hargreaves - Director

    Laurence Hargreaves oversees Altai Consulting’s activities in Libya and in the Horn of Africa.

    Laurence specializes in socio-economic research and programming, and has directed numerous assignments and evaluations in the Middle East, Central Asia and more recently in North and East Africa. In 2011, Laurence started the Altai Libya office in Tripoli, setting up large field research teams and developing methodologies to conduct quantitative and qualitative research and analysis in all regions of the country.

    Laurence has extensive experience working in the Middle East, including for the Jordanian and Iraqi Governments, and is an Arabic speaker.

    Laurence holds an MEng from the University of Cambridge, and an MA in International Security from King’s College London.

  • Geraldine Baudienville - Director

    Geraldine Baudienville has over nine years of experience in international development, working on strategy consulting and project financing in a variety of emerging countries in Asia and in Africa.

    Geraldine’s core areas of expertise are strategy consulting, market entry and investment strategies for large utility companies (energy, transport), financial institutions as well as SMEs in a variety of sectors (consumer goods, retail, etc.). Prior to joining Altai Consulting, Geraldine worked as an investment manager at Agence Française de Développement/Proparco and worked for the British think tank Overseas Development Institute. 

    Géraldine holds an MBA from ESSEC-Paris, one of the leading business schools in Europe. 

  • Arezo Malakooti - Senior Consultant

    Arezo Malakooti is a Senior Consultant at Altai Consulting. She specializes in rule of law and governance and social research for policy in Australia, East Timor, Cambodia and Afghanistan.

    Over the past nine years, Arezo has led numerous social research projects in the areas of minorities, sub national governance, women’s rights and civic participation, and media for development and democratization for donors and international organizations that led to programmatic recommendations. Recently, Arezo has trained and managed teams of local researchers in sensitive areas of Afghanistan to conduct ethnographic studies on the impact of the media on opinions and behavior and social behaviors and attitudes in communities of returnees.

     She has also coordinated program Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) projects as well as large scale assessments of the civil society sector around Afghanistan, and coordinated the implementation of access to justice and rule of law projects, with a focus on civil society, vulnerable groups, and human rights.

    Arezo is an Australian trained lawyer and holds a BA in Business (economics). She speaks fluent Dari/Farsi.

  • Fabien Dany - Project Manager

    Fabien Dany is a Project Manager at Altai Consulting. His primary focus is public sector and private sector development.

    Fabien is managing research and consulting projects for Altai Consulting in Central Asia in the areas of private sector development, capacity building and workforce development in industries such as mining, oil and gas, and construction.

    Fabien has more than ten years of experience in management consulting and was previously senior consultant at ATOS and Sopra Group providing strategic and operational Information Systems advisory services to managers in French ministries.

    Most recently, Fabien has been a competitive intelligence consultant, managing market research projects and conducting supply chain management projects in the Middle East and in Central Asia for European companies. 

    Fabien holds an MBA from Rouen Business School with specializations in Strategy and Information Systems Management, as well as a MA in Geopolitics from Paris 8 University. He speaks fluent Farsi/Dari. 

  • Adrian Carriere - Project Manager

    Adrian Carriere is a Project Manager at Altai Consulting, based in Tripoli, Libya.

    Over the past few years, Adrian has worked on a number of different strategy consulting and research projects in North Africa and Central Asia for clients such as the World Bank, USAID, DFID, the UN, and IRD, as well as various international NGOs and foreign governments. Although his primary focus has been governance and fiscal sustainability, he has also worked on areas such as private sector development, media, security sector reform, and training and capacity building programs.

    Prior to joining Altai, Adrian conducted research for a World Bank report on the effects of conflict on education in Colombia, Ecuador and Nicaragua. He also spent a year working on hospital development projects in Tehran, Kabul and Pondicherry with “La Chaine de l’Espoir”, a French NGO that builds hospital infrastructure and trains local doctors in developing countries.

    Adrian holds an MA from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris), with specializations in International Affairs, Security and Development.

  • Alice Bodreau - Consultant

    Alice Bodreau’s main areas of expertise are Marketing and Brand strategy.

    Alice currently leads strategy consulting efforts for mobile network operators in emerging markets in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.

    Most recently, Alice has worked on a market-entry strategy for an international mobile operator in three East African countries.

    Alice is managing projects in more than ten countries where Altai Consulting operates, combining consumer research, market assessments and data analytics to provide advisory services to CEOs and CMOs.

    Prior to joining Altai, Alice worked for several communication agencies. She was a strategic planner at the New York office of SelectNY, a German communication agency. There, she participated in the design of communication strategies for several clients as well as in the brand repositioning of major international clients.

    Alice holds an MBA from EDHEC-Lille business school in France.

  • Matthieu Dillais - Project Manager

    Matthieu Dillais is Project Manager at Altai Consulting. His main areas of expertise are civil society, media, governance and stabilization.

    Matthieu has worked on several Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) projects for international donors and NGOs including USAID-OTI, the World Bank, and Mercy Corps.

    Most recently, Matthieu worked on the M&E of the USAID-OTI Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative (ASI) program conducted by Altai Consulting. This major endeavor involved designing innovative methodologies to collect information in challenging areas, as well as coordinating with the various USAID-funded programs.

    Matthieu also worked on the assessment of several civil society and sub-national governance mechanisms, including a thorough assessment of the interaction between communities and district and local governments, and the role of the media.

    He holds an MA in International Studies from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris).

  • Eric Davin - Lead Partner

    Eric Davin is a founder and lead partner of Altai Consulting, heading Altai’s Public Policy practice.

    Eric has worked on a large number of strategic assignments to support aid and development programs funded by major donors such as the World Bank, USAID, DFID, UK FCO, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM and other organizations in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

    With more than 10 years of experience in post-conflict countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, the West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Libya and the Horn of Africa, Eric has designed a wide array of innovative methodologies to collect and analyze information in the most challenging environments. As such, Eric has led the evaluation effort of several $500m+ programs leading to improved delivery and programming.

    Eric has prior experience in strategy consulting and new media advisory in Australia, USA and France, and holds an MBA from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales), the leading European School of Management, with a Major in Economics.

  • Aschkan Abdul-Malek - Director

    Aschkan Abdul-Malek’s primary focus is strategy consulting for public and private sector development in emerging markets.

    Aschkan directs large consulting assignments in the areas of mining, oil and gas in Central Asia for private investors and international organizations like the World Bank, as well as large-scale agricultural development projects. In addition, Aschkan has managed consulting teams in Afghanistan on several activities conducting market research and strategic analysis of the construction materials, business services, and financial services markets, and mapping value chains for several consumer goods and agricultural value chains.

    Prior to joining Altai Consulting, Aschkan held various positions in both the private and aid sectors. Aschkan has several years of experience in investment banking and management consulting, providing strategic and financial advisory services to CFOs and CEOs of companies worldwide.

    Aschkan holds an MBA and JD from Vanderbilt University, with specializations in Finance, Strategy, Accounting, and Transactional Law, as well as a BA from UCLA with a major in Business and Economics. 

  • Guillaume de Chorivit - Director

    Guillaume de Chorivit oversees large strategy consulting assignments in the areas of telecoms and media, FMCG and retail.

    Guillaume manages projects in Asia, the Middle-East and Africa for a wide range of international clients. His main area of expertise is strategic advisory, marketing and consumer research in emerging markets.

    Prior to joining Altai Consulting, Guillaume was a strategy consultant at Advention Business Partners, a strategy consultancy, where he dealt extensively with large private ventures and private equity funds, and developed entry-strategy plans and conducted strategic due diligences.

    Guillaume worked in Pakistan as the CFO of ACTED, one of the largest European NGOs, and as an analyst for Messier Partners, a French M&A boutique.

    He graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris), and holds an MSc in Business from Paris Dauphine University. 

  • Philibert de Mercey - Senior Consultant

    Philibert de Mercey is a social research specialist with ten years of professional experience in strategy consulting and research.

    Philibert’s core area of expertise is Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and data management projects.

    Philibert has managed large M&E projects including the evaluation of the facilitating partners of the National Solidarity Program (NSP) in Afghanistan for the World Bank, and the evaluation of USAID-OTI’s Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative (ASI).

    Philibert has developed innovative methodologies and geo-localized tools to capture information and produce solid analytics in frontier countries, and has created several databases and wiki-like search engines to gather program-related information for agencies and governments.

    Philibert has also being involved in several poverty eradication programs and was the team leader of the research project “Moving Out of Poverty” conducted by Altai Consulting for the World Bank in Afghanistan, analyzing the dynamics of poverty in rural and urban areas of the country.

    Philibert is a Professor in the Masters of International Relations program at the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris).

    He holds an MA in Political Sciences from Sorbonne University.

  • Antoine Fine - Business Venture Manager

    Antoine has a 9-year experience in private equity and business development.

    He first joined Lazard in 2003, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, as part of the midcaps private equity team and was promoted Investment Director in 2006. He worked on 15 deals in a variety of situations (LBO, majority & minority stakes, mezzanine & bonds financing, mergers, expansion capital, debt refinancing) and monitored two companies up to exit. Antoine then founded Financière Avanti in 2010, an investment & business development structure and managed four different projects in various sectors (FMCG, sports & leisure and Internet) before joining Altai in 2012.

    Antoine holds an MBA from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales), the leading European School of Management.

  • Daniel Skillings - Project Manager

    Daniel Skillings is a Project Manager at Altai Consulting and specializes in value chain analysis and private sector development.

    Daniel has coordinated Altai Consulting’s activities on large-scale projects such as an in-depth assessment of the Afghan construction sector, as well as capacity building and program design for the USAID-funded Purdue University Strengthening Afghan Agricultural Faculties (SAAF) program at the Afghan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL).

    Prior to joining Altai Consulting, Daniel was the Program Coordinator for the East West Institute’s Preventive Diplomacy Initiatives at the Brussels Centre. Projects included strengthening EU-DPRK relations, analyzing Sino-DPRK relations, global preventive action policy analysis, and advancing preventive action in ASEAN.

    Daniel holds an MA in International Relations (Distinction) from the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he specialized in East Asia Politics and Security, and also a BCom in International Business and Entrepreneurship from the University of Victoria. 

  • Maxime de Lisle - Consultant

    Maxime de Lisle’s main areas of expertise are marketing and corporate strategy.

    Maxime is currently managing Altai’s Iraq office in Sulaimaniyah, from where he is involved on a wide array of projects in the area of mobile telephony, FMCG and retail. Maxime has contributed to the delivery of more than 25 strategy consulting and research projects in Iraq, thus developing a thorough understanding of the dynamics of this fast-moving market.

    Prior to joining Altai, Maxime was working as an internal auditor for the US-based FMCG company Kraft Foods, and was an officer in the French Navy.

    Maxime holds an MSc in Business from Paris Dauphine University, with a major in Finance. He holds a Master’s degree in Strategy and Management from ESSEC Business School, one of France’s leading business schools.

  • Kamran Parwana - Project Manager

    Kamran Parwana’s main areas of expertise are Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E), private sector development and capacity building.

    Kamran has managed several large-scale data collection and analysis efforts for development and stabilization programs in the least permissive districts of Afghanistan, mapping the dynamics of priority areas to the central government of Afghanistan and to the international community. Kamran has also been involved in several market sector assessments of complex economic sectors including construction and agriculture with a view to improve the programming of on-going and future private sector development endeavors.

    Prior to joining Altai Consulting, Kamran worked primarily in the education and development sectors, teaching at universities in both the United States and Afghanistan, and has participated in innovative online teaching programs.

    Kamran holds an MA in Political Science from Northeastern University with a focus on International Relations, and a BA in Political Science from the State University of New York at Albany. 

  • Augustin de Choulot - Consultant

    Augustin de Choulot is a project manager at Altai Consulting. His main areas of expertise are data analytics and consumer understanding.

    Augustin has been working on major projects for Altai Consulting in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for telecom operators, combining field research and data analytics to produce analyses and strategy recommendations.

    Prior to joining Altai, Augustin was a consultant in telecommunication and media at Paris-based Greenwich Consulting, where he worked on numerous due diligence projects related to Africa. He also conducted several implementation projects in emerging markets including in Chad where he designed and implemented a low-cost solution to optimize energy consumption of a large hospital in N’Djaména.

    Augustin holds an MSc in Engineering and Telecommunication from Supelec, one of the leading French Engineering schools, and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po Paris).

  • Careers

    Altai Consulting is currently seeking high-potential candidates with strong analytical skills and experience in emerging markets.

    Please send your CV and cover letter to: careers@altaiconsulting.com

  • Alumni

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