Dr Gun Eriksson Skoog is an economist who works as Senior Advisor in Trade and Market Development at the Africa Department of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). She has many years of experience at Sida and at the ILO, including research in Liberia and Tanzania. Her focus is on the development of employment, trade, private sector, market systems, the MSD approach and institutional change. She is active in the DCED MSD Working Group, including its task team on MSD in FCAS.