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Mr. Sergio Arzeni is the Director of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development since 1st July 2004 and Head of the Programme on Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) since 1994.
His work focuses mostly on entrepreneurship and innovation, on job creation and social cohesion, on SME financing and internationalisation, on business clusters and area-based approaches to economic development and community capacity building.
Mr. Arzeni has worked at the OECD for over 25 years as a senior economist publishing several reports and supervising a wide range of publications on the areas under his responsibility. Prior to joining the OECD, Mr. Arzeni served as an economist for the Italian Parliament, the Italian Trade Unions and the European Commission. As an economic journalist he has contributed to several Italian and international newspapers.
He holds a First Class Honours Degree in Political Science from the University of Rome and specialised in Industrial Economics at the International University Institute of Luxembourg and in International Economic Relations at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., USA. He speaks French, Spanish, English, German and Italian.
Mme Marie-Florence Estimé is Deputy Director of Is Deputy Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs & Local Development and has been responsible for the OECD Working Party in SMEs and Entrepreneurship since its foundation in March 1993.
She has developed the Working Party’s programme of activities and studies on issues and policies concerning SMEs in OECD countries, in particular in the area of employment and job creation, high growth SMEs, ICTs and e-business, competitiveness, globalization, management training, and women’s entrepreneurship. She also has developed, whenever possible, an exchange of information and co-operation with non-member countries, international organization (in particular UNCTAD), the business sector and NGOs. Mme Estimé has managed the preparation of the 1st and 2nd OECD Ministerial Conference on SMEs (Bologna 2000 and Istanbul 2004) and the two OECD Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs in SMEs (Paris, 1997 and 2000). Mme Estimé has an advanced economics degree (Development and International Relations) from the University of Paris (1972). Before joining the OECD, she worked at the French Ministry of Economics and Finance (Direction de la Prévision). At the OECD, Mme Estimé worked at the Development Centre, the Economics Department and the Directorate doe Science, Technology and Industry where she prepared and/or contributed to a number of studies.
Mrs Debbie Binks is the Administrative Officer of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development.
Ms Binks is British and joined the LEED Programme in March 2004. Before joining the LEED team she worked in another Directorate for 9 years working on various transition economy activities. She is currently the Administrative Officer responsible for all staffing and financial matters. Before joining the OECD in 1995 Debbie worked as a Legal Executive specialising in company and commercial law and worked in various law firms in London, Sheffield and Doncaster.
The Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development brings together the experience acquired over 20 years of the Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED) together with the experience of the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division which serves the OECD’s Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship created in 1993, and builds on synergies between the two bodies. Meet the CFE staff by clicking on the links below:
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- SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE (SME) & ENTREPRENEURSHIP DIVISION
- TOURISM COMMITTEE
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