Lora Pissareva

Lora Pissareva is a Policy Analyst working at the SME and Entrepreneurship Performance, Policies and Mainstreaming unit at the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE). She coordinates analytical work on the scaling up of SMEs and start-ups, with a focus on building an inventory of policies in support of scalers across multiple dimensions, including SME data governance, access to scale up finance, networks and internationalisation, and innovation. In 2014-15, she successfully completed the Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs, which included placements with the International Crisis Group in Lebanon and the German Development Agency (GIZ) in Afghanistan. Prior to the fellowship, she gained work experience as a management consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Germany and Iraq, focusing on business environment reform and private sector development. She holds a double diploma in Public Administration and European Studies at the University of Münster and Twente (Netherlands) and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris.