PROFILE

Profile A multidisciplinary team The following staff members and experts are providing key expertise for the projects of Civic Consulting: Dr. Frank Alleweldt is Managing Director of Civic Consulting and has more than fifteen years of experience in leading economic studies, evaluations, and impact assessments for the European Commission, European Parliament, and for other national and international bodies such as the OIE. He specialises in leading and designing the methodology for multi-country and global studies involving interdisciplinary expert teams. Frank has authored and co-authored a large number of study reports and policy briefing papers as well as articles in scientific journals. He regularly presents study results at European and international meetings, including at the European Commission, European Parliament, World Bank, World Trade Organisation, and national governments. Frank has an academic background in environmental studies, economics, and political sciences and possesses a PhD from the Berlin University of Technology. He is fluent in German, English, Dutch, and Turkish, with some knowledge of Spanish. Dr. Senda Kara is Managing Partner and Scientific Director of Civic Consulting. She specialises in implementation of large-scale evaluation studies and policy research projects, with an emphasis on methodology development, designing, and planning of research projects, and stakeholder participation processes. Senda has managed various economic studies, evaluations, and impact assessment projects, covering all subject areas of Civic Consulting. Senda has authored and co-authored a large number of study reports and policy briefing papers as well as articles in scientific journals. She has an academic background in planning studies, sociology, and economics, and possesses a PhD from Berlin University of Technology. Senda is fluent in German, English, and Turkish, with some knowledge of Spanish. Anna Fielder is an associated senior consultant for Civic Consulting, providing expertise in analysis and reporting in consumer policy issues. Before becoming a consultant, she was Director of the Office for Development and Transition Economies at Consumers International. She established the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, which is a forum of 60 EU and US consumer organisations. In her close to 30 years of experience developing consumer research and policy analysis in many different markets, she has edited and authored several guidebooks, reports, policy briefings, and responses to governmental consultations as well as conducted speeches and presentations in the field of consumer protection. Anna speaks English, French, and Romanian. Professor Lothar Maier is an associated senior consultant for Civic Consulting in the area of consumer policy. Lothar has more than twenty years of experience in consumer policy and more than ten years experience in evaluation, including in multi-country studies conducted for the European Commission. Positions held including Managing Director of the Consumer Advice Centre (Verbraucherzentrale) in Hamburg and professor of consumer policy at the University of Applied Sciences in the same city. Lothar is currently president of the ANEC Steering Committee. Other honorary posts range from the position of Chairman of the Consumers Consultative Council of the European Union in Brussels to membership in the supervisory board of the German Stiftung Warentest. In addition, he has conducted a number of appraisal and evaluation missions on consumer protection issues in the following countries: India, Argentina, Chile, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey, and Macedonia. Lothar is a native German speaker and he also speaks fluent English, French, and Spanish. Professor Ludwig Theuvsen is an associated senior economist for Civic Consulting. He was part of the core team of several of our studies, such as a recent study conducted by Civic Consulting on medicated feed and a feasability study on animal welfare labelling and establishing a Community Reference Centre for Animal Protection and Welfare. He currently holds the chair of Management in Agribusiness at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at Georg-August-University in Göttingen. He has served as a reviewer for a large number of national and international journals, conferences, and organisations. He is currently President of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) and of the Scientific Commission of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB). He is co-editor of the German Journal of Agricultural Economics. Ludwig is fluent in German and English. Professor Martin Upton is an associated senior livestock economist for Civic Consulting and has more than forty years of experience in studying, researching, teaching, and promoting agricultural production economics. He has taught these subjects both at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, from 1959 to 1965, and the University of Reading since then. Martin has published over thirty research papers on various aspects of farm and rural development and livestock production, including on the costs of livestock disease control. For example, he was a team leader of a study on the costs and benefits of the movement standstill regimes for FMD control for DEFRA in 2002/2003. Martin was the lead author of the economic analysis in a recent study by Civic Consulting for the OIE on the cost of National Prevention Systems for animal diseases and zoonoses. Rémi Béteille is a consultant at Civic Consulting and focuses on research and reporting for evaluation and impact assessment studies. His core skills include management of data collection and analysis of large-scale data sets. Rémi has worked on several economic studies and evaluations carried out by Civic Consulting, including pan-European evaluations and global economic studies in the area of consumer policy, food chain, and animal health. Before joining Civic, Rémi worked for the European Commission, the African Development Bank, and the French Embassy in Spain. Rémi studied international economics and finance and has a Master of Business Studies from University College Dublin. In addition to French, Rémi is fluent in English and German. Harriet Gamper is a junior consultant at Civic Consulting, focusing on consumer policy issues. Before joining Civic Consulting she spent four months at DG SANCO (in the unit responsible for financial services), where, amongst other things, she provided training on the Consumer Credit Directive to consumer representatives from the EU27 Member States, and worked on a comparative study of bank fees in consumer accounts across the EU27. Previously she worked for 2 and a half years as a policy officer at the Office of Fair Trading (Consumer Credit Group). Harriet holds a Masters in History from the University of Edinburgh. She earned a joint postgraduate European Master in Consumer Affairs from the University of Bologna, Faculty of Economics, and Brunel University, School of Law, where she specialised in financial services and network markets. Aysun Yahlier is a business graduate and head of accountic and personnel management at Civic Consulting. She joined Civic Consulting in 2006. Aysun has a Master's Degree from Berlin University of Technology.