Mark Hellyer

Director

Mark is a project director and lead adviser on major assignments with over 15 years experience in trade policy throughout the world and has helped develop formal trade policies in Armenia, Bhutan, Ghana, Maldives and Moldova (advising on the restructuring of the trade Ministry in Ghana and Maldives). He has extensive practical trade negotiation experience and understanding of the processes involved having: been part of the Ghana Delegation to the WTO Doha Ministerial; negotiated with CARICOM Secretariat on behalf of the Government of Montserrat; been part of the Bhutan Delegation in SAPTA negotiations; part of the South African Delegation in EU-South Africa FTA negotiations and participated in technical groups in the WTO Accession process of Moldova, Armenia, Ukraine and Tonga and; supported negotiations of NTB removal at Stability Pact Meetings. He is also an accomplished trade economist, expert in economic impact analysis using quantitative and modelling techniques to determine the impact of trade liberalisation in Mauritius, Montserrat, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, undertook a major economic model for the Caribbean countries during the banana disputes of the early 1990s and assessed ACP trade performance under the Lomé Conventions.

Chris Cosgrove

Director

Chris is a project director on major assignments and has over 20 years experience of management and coordination of trade and export development projects. He specialises in advising governments on a cohesive approach to trade policy formulation, analysing and identifying key issues and managing a team of experts to address these core needs. From 2001-2008, Chris was team leader for the DFID Ukraine Trade Policy Project and was instrumental in supporting Ukraine during its WTO Accession Negotiations. Chris has also prepared negotiation briefs for the EU for WTO GPA negotiations (access to public procurement) and undertaken a number of trade project evaluations such as the Phare multi-country trade project, EXPROM in Poland and panel evaluation of a trade project for Slovakia. Prior to joining CTA, Chris was engaged in export sales and marketing for over 5 years negotiating direct sales to governments and major multi-national companies as well as negotiating licensing, manufacturing, joint venture and distribution agreements with potential partners throughout the world.

Anjana Patel

Director

Anjana is responsible for all areas of administration at CTA, including financial management, invoicing, contracts, purchasing and marketing. She also undertakes quantitative analysis and supports economic model building including the development of partial equilibrium models for analysing EPA implications on Mauritius and EAC. Prior to joining CTA, Anjana worked as an Administrative Manager at Foster Wheeler (Construction) providing administrative support to teams in more than a dozen countries; Marketing Assistant at Frank Graham Consulting Engineers and; Administrative Officer for 3 teams of BT engineers.

Prakash Jariwala

Company Secretary

Prakash is responsible for preparing management accounts and audit of CTA, as well as all tax and Statutory requirements. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and has more than 20 years experience in accounting specialising in supporting small and medium sized business.

Melanie Partington

Project Manager

Melanie coordinates smaller projects, identifying suitable experts and managing their inputs. She also provides background research and analysis on a variety of projects and has previously analysed the regulatory requirements for approval of pharmaceuticals in Europe, researched global markets for services and assessed compliance criteria for accession to the EU in a number of trade related areas. 

Serghei Nerpii

Project Manager

Serghei is a full time local project coordinator based in Ukraine. He coordinates all local expertise for the Project "Support to stakeholder dialogue in Ukraine on the proposed EU-Ukraine FTA." Previously, he worked for CTA for 7 years as the local project manager for the DFID Trade Policy Project providing support to Ukraine during its Accession to the WTO.