Jenny Scharrer

Jenny Scharrer is a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, 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 multi-million 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 1 March 2009, Jenny is working in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology on a team administrating the German Stimulus Pact "Wirtschaftsfonds Deutschland". She is responsible for preparing decisions on federal guarantee schemes for SME and major companies. These decisions include analysis about macroeconomic eligibility of individual companies, microeconomic sustainability and compatibility of the state aid with the Common European Market.

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

Languages: German, English, French