Kimberley Wadzanai Nyajeka

• Consulting on over 90 ongoing cross-jurisdictional multi-million-dollar transactions, mergers and acquisitions for multinational companies.
• Advising 5 clients in the agriculture, technology and e-commerce, manufacturing and mining sectors through the negotiating, drafting and execution of high-level international contracts and transactions.
• Leading and presenting research on the laws and policies of emerging regional economic communities (especially in Africa, South East Asia and Asia Pacific regions).
• Leveraging specialist knowledge of trade and development policies in emerging regional economic communities as well as mega-regional preferential trade and investment agreements to advise on trade and investment related matters.
• Chairing the Digital Innovation and Technology Committee and successfully drafting the firm IT and cyber– Security Policy.
• Managing the establishment of a solar project in Zimbabwe in collaboration with the largest renewable energy consortium in Zimbabwe and leading a team of 3 colleagues and 4 external parties from the multi-national investor company.
• Conducting trade policy analyses to advise on discrepancies between regional policies and national policies in Africa and proposing solutions to government representatives.

• Assisted the WTO Secretariat with Dispute Settlement proceedings including the proceedings for DS 484 Indonesia – Chicken Products (Article 21.5 Compliance Proceedings) and with drafting the final panel report.
• Contributed to the updating of the WTO Analytical Index and One-Page Case Summaries website.
• Conducted extensive research including research on import bans for the DS 484 Indonesia – Chicken Products case and US – China intellectual Property disputes.

Fellow in the 2021 'She Governs Trade' Programme -  a development program for junior and mid-career women professionals designed to increase their technical and leadership skills with respect to rules-based trade governance. I participated in the following training programs:

• Trade technical webinar series: current issues on Africa’s trade agenda; trade data, tariff and policy analysis.

• Blog writing: "How the AfCFTA Can Assist Small Scale-Trade. 

• Trade technical: online video content, reading, online tasks 

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• Producer, Writer and Host of the podcast which explores how young people around the world are navigating life in the the current social, political and economic climate. 
• Using audio editing tools - Audacity and Garage Band.
• Digital media creation using Canva and Adobe.
• Creating effective social media campaigns and social awareness.