Alexandra Sharma

Managing the European partner network for Boostability, the global leader in online marketing solutions for SMEs.

I am currently a remote researcher at the Europe and Asia-Pacific desks, providing political risk analysis for the aforementioned regions.

I created defence market forecasts for the next decade through quantitative and qualitative research, Excel modelling, and interviews with industry professionals in order to highlight future trends on the local, national and global level.The reports were 200+ pages long and provided deep industry insight into a given market, its submarkets, relevant countries, and companies operating within the field.

As a subcontractor for the Global Risk Analysis team, I produced a research report regarding the renewable energy sector in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

I wrote country risk reports on the topics of war, terrorism, civil unrest and political risk. My initial specialisation was on Eastern Europe, and I was later reassigned to the Caribbean.

I provided daily regional monitoring of Europe and the CIS, reports for the Regional Security Advisor and DRSA and New York HQ meeting portfolio preparation.

As a research intern, I focused primarily on creating guideline documents for national and EU defence procurement, as well as processing EU PSC and PMG committee reports.

I provided distance research regarding a new publication about Italy. My research areas were particularly economic developments, key politicians and academics.

My main project was German policy research, focusing local universities and the relationships between the Germany and Slovakia.

I researched departmental interests (human rights and gender equality), aided with managing NGO-related events by establishing contact between the bureau and various NGOs in Slovakia and translated UN and EU legislation.

My main task included interpretation PA duties for the visiting professionals from the German Red Cross. I was also involved in the managing of the event, and had to display rapid response capacity and decision-making.

As a journalism intern focused on international relations and developments, it was my task to research and draft reports for presenters, present articles and edit them.