Warc
The West African Rice Company
Fola supports the Finance Director and the wider team with finance-related activity. She has numerous years of private sector finance experience in Sierra Leone. In particular, she held various roles in the financial department of a mining operation in Sierra Leone for 7 years.
Brima is Warc’s Operations Manager since 2011. He is well experienced in the Sierra Leonean agricultural sector and is in charge of managing the logistics and operations of Warc. He leads the processing of duty free concessions, contracting logistic providers and local suppliers.
Arnaud is the Key Agronomist Expert on the EU BAFS program. Previously, he was Head of Projects at Welthungerhilfe for 12 years in Madagascar, coordinating rural development projects.
Xaver is a project manager for Warc’s consulting arm in Sierra Leone, currently overseeing the implementation of a city-wide data collection exercise for the local municipal government of Freetown. Xaver comes to Warc with 3 years of professional work experience leading data collection and research projects in Lisbon, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau. A Swiss and Dutch national, Xaver is fluent in 5 languages, and holds a Master in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal.
Joaquín is the 2019-20 Princeton in Africa Fellow. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance & International Business from Georgetown University. As part of the M&E and Business Development Teams, he supports Warc’s impact evaluation efforts and oversees the implementation of growth opportunities for the organization. Joaquín is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina and has lived in the US for over a decade.
Fernando completed his agronomist training at the University of Buenos Aires with graduate degrees specializing in Ecophysiology and extensive crop and production systems, and later taught there as a professor. His past work experience includes advising a company with over 400,000 Ha in crops and bovine cattle, as a Director of the National Agricultural Plan for the Environments. He also has experience farming intensive crops, setting up fish and chicken farms, and livestock farming in the northeast region of Argentina
