Elizabeth Nora Duğral

Advised on 30+ complex client scenarios, applying financial analysis and strategic frameworks to raise the quality of AI business reasoning.

Selected into the highest expert tier at a 0.2% acceptance rate to build practitioner-grade finance decision frameworks for an AI company. Designed FP&A case studies on budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis, refining each across 3 skill domains to evaluate the financial reasoning of AI agents.

Deliver credit analysis and transaction appraisal expertise for an AI research program, reviewing investment memos and financial statements. Guide management on business development domain strategy during LLM training cycles.

Run an executive English-fluency coaching practice for senior executives in finance and multinational roles. Advise on business strategy, M&A negotiation, and PE pitch books, and launched an AI-powered platform for client engagement.

Advised on legal registration, governance, and funding architecture for an agricultural development organization. Built institutional pitch books, led investment negotiations, and structured blended-finance instruments that mobilized a 60% increase in private capital.

Identified a $170,000 revenue misstatement through root-cause analysis of ERP data and wrote the first Compliance & Audit Check SOP. Built an ESG framework supporting 23 portfolio companies and managed fiduciary oversight on cross-jurisdiction bookings.

Screened investment opportunities through financial due diligence and transaction analysis across 23 concurrent portfolio companies and a quarterly deal pipeline averaging $34.5M. Identified a $170,000 revenue misstatement through ERP data analysis and established a Compliance & Audit Check SOP.

Promoted to CFO/COO and joined the Senior Management Team at age 25. Originated and closed a $5M sovereign education-infrastructure PPP, secured an $8M commitment from the Pharo Foundation, and won $3.1M across three USAID awards.

Led the operational start-up of a $12M education infrastructure project, Barwaaqo University, through a six-month government approval delay. Managed construction tendering, security negotiations, and operational commissioning, and cut operational expenses by 20%.

Coordinated funding partnerships with eight international donors, including financial proposal modeling and reporting for an agronomy and water-development program. Developed the financial framework for a community water-filtration infrastructure project.

Developed the financial framework for a community water-filtration infrastructure project as investor-facing liaison to Engineers Without Borders, the Coca-Cola Foundation and Rotary International. Coordinated partnerships with 8 international donors for agronomy and water-development programs.

Certified PPP Professional (CP3P) Foundation certification.

Completed training on Infrastructure, Public-Private Partnerships, and Fiscal Management.

Completed training on Reinforcement Learning (RL) Task Design & Evaluation.

Grade: Merit

Executive Global MSc in Management, graduated with Merit and Distinctions in dissertation, Strategy, Organisation & Innovation, and Marketing Strategy. Dissertation on niche cash-crop imports and the Somali economy was awarded Top 5% in cohort and published in the LSE business library.

Grade: Honours

Master of Science in Global Management with Honours, awarded top 5% in cohort for Economics research on East African cash crop markets.

Post-graduate fellowship for 1.5 years of research in Bolivia.

Grade: Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Humanities, Speech & Linguistics, Spanish, graduated Summa Cum Laude and Founder's Scholar.

Grade: Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Humanities, Speech & Linguistics, and Spanish, graduated Summa Cum Laude and as a Founder's Scholar. Trained in speech and acting at the Atlantic Theater Company, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Completed the CORe program covering Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting.

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.