Jenny Scharrer

Jenny Scharrer is a fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin. Her consulting work focuses on international development, public-private partnerships as well as monitoring and evaluation. She is a qualified lawyer and an expert for private sector development in emerging and developing markets as well as sustainable agribusiness.

Prior to joining GPPi Jenny worked for OXFAM Hong Kong - The Prosperity Initiative as a strategy team manager in Vietnam (2007-2009). There she was responsible for conducting market research in agricultural commodities and for defining interventions that would increase income for impoverished farmers in the respective sectors. She has experience in undertaking a feasibility study for a multimillion dollar investment in the bamboo industry. Before moving to Vietnam, Jenny worked for McKinsey & Company (2003-2005). As a consultant, she was in Ethiopia for the GTZ and in Congo, DRC on a World Bank project promoting private sector development and favourable investment climate in these countries.

Since March 2009, Jenny has been working in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, helping to administer the German Stimulus Pact (Wirtschaftsfonds Deutschland). She has been responsible for preparing decisions on federal guarantee schemes for major companies and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); these decisions included assessing the macroeconomic eligibility of individual companies and their microeconomic sustainability. Jenny is now working on foreign trade issues, in particular the implementation of sanctions against Iran.

Jenny studied law at the Free University of Berlin, Sorbonne Paris I and holds a LLM from the European Academy for legal theory in Brussels. From 2001-2003 she was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she received a Master in Public Administration. She was also awarded an ERASMUS scholarship as well as a scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation.

Languages: German, English, French