Program Components - Key Personnel
 

Aram Zamgochian is a Director at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and Project Director of the Private Sector Initiative of the Partnership for Lebanon, a collaborative effort initiated by leading U.S. business leaders in September 2006 to provide critically needed resources to assist the reconstruction efforts in Lebanon.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions. It includes hundreds of associations, thousands of local chambers, and more than 100 American Chambers of Commerce  in 91 countries. 

 

Mr. Zamgochian is responsible for providing the Chamber's membership and affiliates with first hand knowledge of the political, social, business, risk, economic and competitive dynamics of emerging markets throughout the developing world.   

 

Previously, he served as the U.S. Chamber's Chief of Party in India for the South Asia Regional Energy Coalition (SAREC), a business advocacy and private sector capacity building project through which public and private sector stakeholders influenced regional energy policy and reform throughout South Asia.  This multi-year, multi-million dollar regional program was funded by the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) SARI/Energy Program, launched in 2000 to build mutually beneficial energy linkages among the countries of South Asia. 

 

Mr. Zamgochian's project management experience covers various donor-funded and private sector technical assistance as well as policy initiatives in Afghanistan,  Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand, Singapore, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with a focus on: energy trade favoring clean fuels; energy sector liberalization; energy sector planning and policy analysis; developing competitive markets for industry and energy; strengthening the local private sector to advocate for investment-friendly market reforms; regional cooperation in energy efficiency (standards and labeling); increasing the private sector role in reform and energy efficiency; and executive-level peer exchanges to promote transfer of private industry best-practices in developing energy markets.  As part of these initiatives, he has lent expertise and industry input to pre-feasibility studies; served as lead author on issues papers and technical reports; drafted model documents to support investment and trade in developing markets; and developed model frameworks for regional private sector cooperation and collaboration.  Mr. Zamgochian has presented the results of many of these efforts in various forum including focus workshops, training programs and private sector partnership events.  Most recently, Mr. Zamgochian presented and published a paper entitled 8 Criteria for Investing in Pakistan's Power Sector at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.  He has also participated on training and capacity building interventions throughout South and Southeast Asia.  Mr. Zamgochian is a proven project manager, having worked in various high-risk, results-oriented business environments in the developing world.

 

NECG is a professional Group of Management and Executive Search Consultants.
 
Their Services are divided into two core activities:
 
Management Consulting. NECG offers a full-fledged management consulting practice dealing exclusively with top management concerns in the areas of strategy, organization development, and profit improvement.
 
Executive Search. In addition to its Management Consulting practice, NECG specializes in the recruitment of middle and senior management positions in different functional areas.
 

During the first phase of the Private Sector Initiative, NECG assisted the Partnership For Lebanon in conducting a pilot survey of the Private Sector in Lebanon and in identifying actionable opportunities that could be accelerated if provided adequate support.