Managing Director, GOPA Worldwide GmbH

Eva Raute brings more than 15 years of international development experience to the GOPA Group and has deep expertise in working for various development partners (EU, GIZ, MCC, KfW, WB, etc.) in the field of private sector development, education and employment promotion, green economy and climate change.

In January 2022, she became the Managing Director of GOPA Worldwide, which has an average annual turnover of 89 million EUR and implements on average 280 ongoing donor-funding projects (EU, GIZ, KfW, MCC, WB, SDC, etc.). Eva is responsible for the financial performance of GOPA Worldwide and its strategic positioning in the market. She is a dedicated leader and highly committed to placing people at the heart of development. She greatly values working in diverse teams, interacting and cooperating with people from different places around the world, and building up trustful relationships. For her, it is important to embrace change and to empower and learn from the people around her.

Previous to becoming Managing Director of the company, she was leading the Education and Employment Promotion (EEP) Department for almost six years. As a Director, she was responsible for the technical and financial performance of the department. She closely followed and monitored the quality of projects in the field of employment promotion and all education sub-sectors, including TVET. Before joining EEP, Eva was a Senior Project Manager in the Governance and Economic Development (GED) department, where she was responsible for the acquisition of implementation of several large and complex EU-funded projects in South-East Asia and the Caribbean. Parallel to that, she was coordinating the GOPA Group’s Green Economy Competence Unit. In this function, Eva also participated in the COP 21 in Paris and since then has been putting topics such as climate change, sustainability, and the reduction of our carbon footprint higher on the agenda of the GOPA Group.

Before joining GOPA in 2009, Eva worked for GIZ both in Thailand and later in Eschborn in the “policy consultancy in the agriculture, fisheries and food sector“ section. In Thailand, she worked for the “SME competitiveness program”, where she gained in-depth knowledge of the shrimp value chain and traceability issues in the fisheries sector.

She also serves as a member of UN Women.

Eva has a double diploma from Germany and the Netherlands, where she studied Public Administration with a focus on sustainable development and European Studies (B.A. and B.Sc.). She also took her Master’s Degree in Business Administration in the Netherlands (M.Sc.). The topic of both Bachelor's and Master’s Thesis was SME development in the Global South.

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