IDA CHRISTENSEN

• Advised Director and OECD's most senior management on trade policy priorities, synthesizing inputs into clear strategic messages.
• Coordinated high-level OECD committees and ministerial forums, aligning technical work with political objectives.
• Onboarded and managed three team members, establishing priorities and enforcing quality standards.

• Built an econometric company-rating model (Stata, R, Excel) to assess market distortions and competitiveness across industrial sectors.
• Developed analytical framework to quantify subsidy impacts on trade, supporting OECD policy positions.
• Led drafting of policy reports on industrial subsidies, energy markets, rolling stock, and SOEs, used in member-country discussions.

• Led 2 cultural foresight projects, translating qualitative trend analysis into strategic implications for brand and innovation teams
• Presented insights to 300+ senior stakeholders via executive webinars
• Designed and facilitated foresight-to-action workshops with 5+ brands, driving concrete portfolio and positioning decisions

Was first hired in 2018 as a trend forecasting intern, later became a trend forecaster, and then was a Cultural Planner.

• Conducted macroeconomic and scenario analysis using Datastream and Excel to inform sovereign risk assessments
• Produced country forecasts and reviewed risk ratings for 10+ countries, integrating geopolitical risk for the Middle East & Central Asia

• Founded and scaled Paris operations of an international policy consultancy.
• Recruited and managed 5 analysts delivering research for NGOs, businesses, and governments.
• Led development-policy projects (e.g. African debt relief; China-Africa economic relations) from scoping to final delivery.
• Built partnerships across public, private, and multilateral stakeholders.