Most recently Charlotte worked at the UN agency International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD in Rome as the Associate Vice President, for External Relations and Governance. 

Before starting GROWTHCAP in 2011, Charlotte was Director of the TurnAround Management/Business Advisory Services (TAM/BAS) Programme at EBRD, leading this entrepreneurship programme for micro, small and medium sized enterprises in the private sector.

Charlotte rejuvenated all aspects of this essentially donor-funded programme with more than 12,000 individual projects with entrepreneurs. Mobilising € 250 million for field programmes, expanding operations from 5 local offices to 30 and completing more than 12,000 individual projects.Participating businesses attracted some € 1.4 billion of investment.Charlotte was also the founder of the EBRD women in business programme that has supported250,000 female entrepreneurs across 23 countries with € 1 billion in financing.

Charlotte has a strong focus on corporate and social responsibility, empowering entrepreneurs and companies through direct women-in-business programmes and environmental programmes in Africa, (including Botswana, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and Zambia), and innovation projects such as London Underground’s Spinview, Lendlease’s Stratford Cross and Arexpo’s Milan Futuristic Innovation Park.

As well as developing entrepreneurship, fundraising, growing businesses to create jobs, and developing community, partnerships and innovative social and environmental projects through GROWTHCAP.

Charlotte held board positions with Give a Future and Neuroinvent,  Swedfund, Kinnevik Reach for Change, and, Hugo Stenbeck’s Stiftelse.

Charlotte holds a BA in International Relations, EC Law and Economics from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and an MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She speaks English, French, Italian and Swedish and has some German, Russian and Spanish.