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With a background in International Relations & Global Studies, Derya has worked in development cooperation projects promoting women’s economic empowerment, entrepreneurship, and digital trade in South Asia and West Africa. Currently, she serves as a policy advisor for strategic knowledge transfer with the Global Solutions Initiative, where her work centers on promoting collaboration between think tanks from G20 and non-G20 countries, and practitioners from GIZ and its partner countries in the Global South.
Why did you join the Solutions Lab? “With its focus on inequality reduction, the South African G20 presidency presents a valuable opportunity for the Solutions Lab to shape and enrich the much-needed debate on enhancing funding mechanisms that operationalize the transformation agendas to integrate inequality reduction into the investment processes effectively.”