VC Learning Event Video Note: Benjamin Herzberg and William Kedrock on public-private dialogue and policy issues

In this video interview, Benjamin Herzberg and William Kedrock report about their session, "Creating an Enabling Environment," from the February 7-8, 2012 USAID Learning Event, "Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development." 

Bio: Benjamin Herzberg, World Bank Institute

Benjamin Herzberg is Program Lead, Private Sector Engagement for Good Governance (PSGG) at the World Bank Institute. Before joining, he was Senior Private Sector Development Specialist in the joint World Bank / IFC Investment Climate Department, where he was the Global Product Leader on Public-Private Dialogue. Since he joined the World Bank 8 years ago, he led or participated in interventions on investment climate reform, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and competitiveness in more than 20 countries. He also led the incubation of a new Global Practice on Competitive Industries in 2010-11 and directed investment generation programs in Europe and Central Asia out of Vienna, Austria in 2009-2010. Beforehand, he worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Office of the High Representative on participatory reform making and at the OSCE on stimulating the SME sector. Previously he worked in the private sector in France (banking), Israel (biotechnology) and the USA (high-technology). Herzberg holds a post-graduate degree in Geography and Environment from the Université des Sciences et Techniques, and a Suma Cum Laude Master's degree in Geography from the Université de la Sorbonne, France.

Bio: William Kedrock, Booz Allen Hamilton

Bill Kedrock is a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton where he managers a portfolio focused on trade, competitiveness, and SME group in Ethiopia, Senegal, Serbia, and Tanzania. He worked as the agribusiness advisor on the Investment in Developing Export Agriculture (IDEA) project in Uganda and as the St. Lucia country director for an agribusiness venture capital project in the Eastern Caribbean. He brings more than 25 years of project/program management experience to the challenges of competitiveness, enterprise development, business enabling environment, association strengthening, and public-private dialogue. Over the years, Bill has worked on and managed projects for USAID, international NGOs, and DfID. Before joining Booz Allen, he worked for Chemonics International, The Service Group, Development Alternatives, and as a freelance consultant. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, he holds an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.