Berkay Akbaba

Experience

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  Lonza Netherlands, former PharmaCell

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2015

  Project Accountant

  • Successfully collaborated with the CEO on the "Productivity Project", which improved the operational efficiency of the organisation;• Conducted analyses using internal data;• Created financial overviews and statistics;• Assisted Project Management and Finance departments with various tasks.

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  IRI

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

  Business Analyst

  • Analysed big data in FMCG/Retail sectors to uncover the latest insights and optimised marketing strategies (new trends, consumer behaviour);• Guided 3 clients on their marketing strategies and resolved their queries;• Created 50+ Excel reports (rankings, scorecards, hierarchy reports, sales decompositions) and gave 4 PowerPoint presentations.

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  CDC Cartel Damage Claims

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Economic Analyst

  • Conducted economic analyses for litigation purposes in 10+ EU, French and German competition cases (damage calculations, theories of harm);• Assisted 25+ (potentially) damaged companies with transaction and survey data, evidence and analyses;• Involved in all aspects of data (collection, cleaning, quality management, evaluation, analysis and presentation), using Python, Stata and Excel;• Evaluated public data, corporate information, investor relations, industry studies, cartel and merger decisions and court judgments;• Built up expert knowledge on the markets, products and infringements;• Evaluated public data, corporate information, industry studies, economic aspects of cartel and merger decisions and court judgments;• Reviewed economic research and the applicability to competition law;• Cooperated with external economists, market experts and consultancies. Show less

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  Milieu Ltd

  Jul 2021 - Oct 2023

  Policy Analyst

  ▪ Drafting reports and conducting impact assessments, evaluations, and policy and data analyses for 25+ EU-wide projects – incl. the 2021, 2022 and 2023 reports on Intra-EU Labour Mobility, Access to Essential Services (energy, digital services, financial services, transport, water, sanitation), Social Inequalities and Climate Change, Posted Workers, Seasonal Workers, Company Data, AI & Robotics and OSH, Online Disinformation, Cohesion Policy, Agriculture (CAP SP);▪ Targeted questionnaire and open public consultation analyses for 5+ EU projects and directives – incl. Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD), Racial Equality (RED), Marine (MSFD), Bathing Waters (BWD), Energy Governance;▪ Quantitative tasks, incl. data management and processing, visual presentation of data, and extraction of key insights from Eurostat, OECD and EU-SILC datasets, using Excel, Stata, R and Python;▪ Qualitative tasks, incl. desk research, stakeholder interviews, workshop facilitation, and synthesis of questionnaire and survey responses, using NVivo, Qualtrics, Alchemer, SurveyMonkey, Dedoose and EUSurvey;▪ Building up professional skills and knowledge in various clusters – incl. Better Regulation & Evaluations (e.g. cost-benefit analyses, impact assessments), Employment & Mobility, Energy, Transport & Climate, and Banking & Finance (e.g. Digital Euro);▪ Cooperating with various DGs of the European Commission, external economists and lawyers, market experts, statistical offices, and consultancies;▪ Interactive Excel trainings to 30+ colleagues, which were well-received and improved the efficiency of the organisation. Show less

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  Eurostat

  Oct 2023 - now

  Statistical Officer