Victoria Carter

Victoria Carter is a private sector development specialist with over 10 years of experience in large-scale program management.

She has held various senior leadership positions in organizations like Katalyst (Swisscontact), the Market Development Facility (MDF) (Cardno and Palladium), and AIP-Rural (PRISMA, TIRTA, SAFIRA) (Palladium).

Victoria's background includes expertise in private sector commercial law, engineering project management, and has worked with companies like Davis Langdon (now AECOM incorporated) and Mott MacDonald.

Her skill set covers project management for international development, private sector development, international commercial law, market development, market systems development, M4P, construction and technical project management, women's economic empowerment, comparative legal systems, commercial contracting, risk management, and DCED results measurement.

She has extensive country experience in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Macau, Singapore, Norway, Jordan, Bangladesh, Fiji, Timor-Leste, Pakistan, and Papua New Guinea, and has conducted legal and economic analyses for European countries and research in Russia, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Victoria has engaged with donors such as DFAT, DFID, DANIDA, CIDA, EKN, SDC, ADB, and the World Bank.

Her educational background includes studying law at King's College London, obtaining an MSc in Project Management in the Built Environment from Oxford Brookes University, and completing an IB Diploma at United World College of South East Asia.

She currently serves as a Senior Technical Advisor at Palladium: Make It Possible and has previously held roles like Country Director Fiji (MDF) at Palladium: Make It Possible, Deputy Team Leader at Aecom PHAMA Plus, Deputy General Manager at AIP-Rural (Palladium), among others in organizations like Cardno, Swisscontact-Katalyst, BRAC, Mott MacDonald, AECOM, Asia Law and Practice, and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.