PAULINE GARNIER-CRUSSARD

#37, South Street, Waltham, M.A. 02453 | 781-521-9524 | pgc@brandeis.edu

Profile: professional experience in micro insurance. Fluent with French, German, English.

EDUCATION

Heller School for Social Policy and Management - Brandeis University 2009-2011
M.A. Sustainable International Development candidate Waltham,
 Coursework includes: Fundraising, Planning and Implementation, Monitoring and MA
Evaluation, Econometrics, Micro-enterprise development, Cost effectiveness
analysis.

Institut d’Etudes Politiques (‘Science Po’) 2005-2009

Degree equivalent to a B.A. and a first year of M.A. in Political Science Aix,
 Major in International Affairs and Economics. France
 Master thesis relating to the effectiveness of aid and the involvement of US private
foundations in international development.

RELEVANT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

International Labor Organization, UN Sept. 2007

Assistant to the Head of the Strategies and Tools against social Exclusion and Poverty June 2008
program New Delhi,
 Co-organized a conference on health micro insurance in New Delhi, and coordinated India
the Asian Micro Insurance Network forum. Compiled bilingual reports.
 Represented the ILO during the International Conference on Micro Insurance in
Bombay hosted by CGAP and the Munich Re Foundation.
 Gathered and analyzed data about Below Poverty Line households and interviewed
insurance companies to prepare the implementation of the first national health micro
insurance scheme for the 500 million members of the informal sector.
 Drafted a report about the extension of the emerging Indian insurance schemes
covering people living with HIV.
 Launched a research project on socially responsible corporations and social venture
capital funds potentially interested in micro insurance schemes in India.
 Analyzed national and international philanthropic foundations involved in funding
micro-insurance and microfinance projects.

Asha Kiran Society, NGO Summer

Volunteer consultant 2008
 Assessed the strengths and opportunities of their health micro insurance schemes Orissa,
implemented for Desiya, Bonda and Gadaba tribes. India

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

 Volunteer: Gave struggling Middle School children weekly volunteer tutoring 2001-2004
remedial courses in Math, French, English and German.
 Sport and leadership: Trained two women basketball teams at the regional level, 2005-2007
and took the chair of the sportive association of ‘Science Po’.

OTHER SKILLS

 Fluent with FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN. Articulate in HINDI.

 Proficient in EXCEL and POWERPOINT. Basic knowledge in STATA.