The Asia Foundation

Expertise: Economic Reform and Development

Véronique Salze-Lozac'h is an economist who joined The Asia Foundation in September 2003. She is based in Cambodia and covers several countries in the region.

Since she joined the Foundation, Dr. Salze-lozac'h has implemented economic program strategy to support local efforts to promote economic reforms for a sustainable market-led economic growth. Her work focuses on building a consensus on WTO accession by the dissemination of information on WTO accession and exposure to examples from other neighboring countries; collecting and analyzing information and data on the barriers to business development in Cambodia through surveys, census, and research studies; and improving the private sector ability to push for reforms and influence policymakers by working directly with micro, small and medium enterprises in provincial Cambodia. Dr. Salze-lozac'h also has been involved in the design and implementation of economic programs in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, among other Foundation offices in the region.

Dr. Salze-lozac'h has focused on developing economies, particularly private sector development and advocacy as a way to address development issues.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Salze-lozac'h worked for a French agency on business environment issues and Foreign Direct Investments, traveling extensively to the Indian Ocean area, including Madagascar, Mauritius Island, and South Africa, as well as to countries in Europe and Asia. More recently, as the manager of her own consulting firm, VSL Consulting, she worked on a variety of private sector development projects for both the public and private sector. In 2000 the French Minister of Economy and Finance asked Dr. Salze-Lozac'h to organize the first European conference on microfinance and job creation in Paris. As a result of this conference, she was entrusted with the feasibility study that led to the creation of the European Microfinance Network, based in Paris. She has served as a lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh and more recently taught graduate courses in project engineering, demand analysis and company creation to African and Asian professionals for the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement).

Education: M.A. in English/political sciences, France at la Sorbonne; M.A. in international affairs/economic development, the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris; M.A. in public and international affairs and Ph.D. in economic development at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh.