Managing Director, Progress Asia Consulting, Myanmar
Felix Haas is Managing Director of Progress Asia Consulting Co. Ltd. (Myanmar), a strategy consulting firm with a focus on public affairs, philanthropy, political risk and public-private sector cooperation in Asia. He has longstanding experience as an independent consultant to NGOs and the private sector in Myanmar and broader Southeast Asia. Key areas of his professional interest are private sector development, investment and industrial sector promotion, liberalization in trade in goods and services, effective public-private partnerships as well as conflict-sensitivity aspects in development programming and corporate projects.
Mr. Haas has worked with different government agencies including GIZ, organizations of the United Nations system, and the World Bank in the context of short-term consultancies related to economic reform issues in Myanmar and the region. Mr. Haas holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from Technische Universität Berlin and a M.A. in General Management from Toulouse Business School and completed a professional certificate program as a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University.