With more than 25 years of experience in consultancy work for international corporations and organisations, cultural and educative institutions, not-for-profit associations and private/public foundations, Reda Benkirane has a dual profile of practitioner/maker and researcher/scholar which let him cover various fields of expertises and provide diversified consultancy services. His human knowledge engineering and his command of the arts of writing, communicating and bridge-building are action and solution-oriented.
Areas of Expertise:
Technologies of Information and Communication TIC
Digital Humanities
Complexity management
Interdisciplinary studies
Development Studies
Identity and Globalization Issues
Religion & Politics Issues
Radicalization, jihadism, extreme violence
(In)security (politics of)
MENA Region
Sahel Region
Contemporary Islam
Consultancy Services :
I. International Policy Issues
Diplomacy, Mediation and Negociation
Conflict-Resolution Initiatives and Peace Studies
Intercultural and Inter-religious Dialogue
Geopolitics of the MENA region
II. Research & Training
Scientific direction
Strategic Analysis
Reports and Feasibility Studies
Institutional organization
Programmatic Set-up of NGO’s and Research Units
Research activities
Teaching activities
Training Sessions
Briefings, Workshops and Seminars
III. Communication Strategy
Organization of International Meetings/Events
Public Information Campaigns
Information Architecture
Editorial Policy
Publications
Web publishing and online services
Examples of Missions:
- Providing expertise on sensitive social issues and political risks related to MENA countries
- Consulting missions for the Executive Director of a broadcast network
- Supplying information and monitoring to a former Head of State on various economic, political and social issues
- Advising the Direction of a network of NGOs on (re)structuring an Information Technology Department (improving services, reducing costs & preserving existing staff)
- Feasibility study for a Museum on an exhibition on world religions
- Assisting a Manager on the institutionalization of a newly set-up NGO
- Training diplomats, journalists and teachers on how to handle cultural diversity in an international work environment
- Training private sector executives on how to manage complexity
- Assisting the Direction of a communication department on the migration of a strategic corporate website
- Managing public information campaigns on global trade and HIV/AIDS
- Managing comprehensive communication strategies
Selection of Inter-national Clients and/or Partners:
- Edipresse, Lausanne
- Le Temps stratégique
- Le Temps
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- Département des Affaires culturelles de la Ville de Geneve
- Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève
- Club Suisse de la Presse – Geneva Press Club
- World Council of Churches (WCC)
- Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA)
- Ecumenical Church Loan Foundation (ECLOF)
- Islamic Relief, Geneva
- Aljazeera Network, Qatar
- Aljazeera Centre for Studies, Qatar
- Reporters without Borders
- Département de l’Instruction Publique (DIP, République de Genève)
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- Graduate Institute, Geneva
- Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva (DCAF)
- Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
- Levant Foundation
- ASDEAM
- Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat
- Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialog
- The HD Centre for Humanitarian Dialog
- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Fondation Orient Mont Pélerin, Geneva
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