Juliana Asante-Dartey is an Agribusiness Development and Finance Specialist with over 21 years’ experience in African agricultural development and trade. She has designed and implemented strategies to strengthen agribusiness value chains tied to viable market opportunities and has facilitated trade of over $60M in high value horticultural products, built the capacities of over 12,000 collectors/farmers and 80 SMEs in over 200 communities in Sub-Sahara Africa.
As Country Director, she provides strategic and financial oversight across varied projects and multi-stakeholder, multi-institutional, interdisciplinary/multi-cultural teams with an annual budget of $1M.
Mrs. Asante-Dartey has a deep understanding of the agribusiness value chain development landscape which she applies to Human and Institutional capacity advancement. She has conceptualized, designed and implemented capacity building models for women groups, youth, smallholders, FBOs, partner organizations and support service providers among others.
Juliana Asante-Dartey has a Master’s in Business Administration (International marketing & Finance) degree and a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics.