Steve Utterwulghe is a Senior Private Sector Development Specialist with the Trade and Competitiveness GP, where he also serves as the Global Lead for Public-Private Dialogue (PPD). He has advised governments and firms in Asia, Africa and Latin America, mainly in fragile and conflict-affected situations, on designing and implementing engagement mechanisms that ensure more inclusive and sustainable policy reforms through a structured and participatory reform process between governments and the private sector. Projects focus on economy-wide issues and specific industries (e.g. agribusiness, extractives).

Steve has spent the last 20 years of his life studying and working on fragility, conflict and violence (FCV). He has lived and worked in war-torn countries such as Angola and Sudan, as well as designed and lead programs in Yemen, Myanmar, Somalia, Pakistan, Nepal, DRC, Haiti, etc. He worked at the United Nations in Geneva (ITC/UNCTAD) and in Sudan for the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General; and at the European Commission in Brussels. He was an Advisor to the Australian Government\'s Agency for International Development on Peace and Development.

Steve holds an MSc from the London School of Economics, a joint MA from Tilburg University and the Université Catholique de Louvain, and a Graduate Certificate from Cambridge University in Sustainable Business.