In Hamburg we employ more than 400 employees, and we have about 1,000 colleagues working on our projects worldwide. Who are the people who actually work at GFA? What is their day-to-day work like and what excites them about their job? Because we can't sum up the diversity of all the different functions and fields of activity in just a few words, we'll just let our colleagues speak for themselves!
Richard Apedo Zaforyi (left) and Victor Yaw Morgan are graphic designers from Ghana who reliably provide professional layouts, creative designs and smart info graphics for a variety of GFA publications. Richard: “The opportunity to collaborate on diverse projects has not only improved my technical skills but also enhanced my ability to create culturally sensitive designs that resonate with a global audience.” Victor: “Now working with a huge international company like GFA has opened my eyes to a more structured approach to project execution.”
Read our interview with the graphic designers at this LINK.
"When I tell people that I work in the agricultural sector, most of them imagine green fields, tractors, harvesters, hardworking farmers. However, agriculture is much more than what people have in their minds. It involves policy advice and advocacy, economic analysis and forecast, national legislation, extension and education, agribusiness and marketing, digital innovations and new technologies."
"My work covers a wide range of areas, and the requests from the departments range from identifying local experts and partner companies to logistics and compliance issues, as well as supporting and accompanying fact-finding missions. I am most pleased when I can help with the content or, together with our recruitment department, with the identification of specialists for a specific project."
"Each project is a new learning process. It's not fixed that you do everything the same way every time. Projects are very unique."
"I am originally from India, and now I work with the Digital Learning for Impact (DLI) team at GFA headquarters in Germany. This has been an incredible journey. The learning challenges I encountered in India highlighted the local nature of education barriers that inspired me to develop solutions tailored to overcome those obstacles. Now, I am part of a multicultural team with colleagues from different continents. This allows me to take a much broader global perspective, blend diverse ideas, and create innovative learning formats and aids such as artificial intelligence tutors."
"I work on a range of different projects every day. I jump back and forth between meetings, and individual tasks that I work on independently at my desk. Which is really great, because you meet so many people and get to work with different people."
"As a trilingual assistant, it is a highlight for me to speak German and English in addition to my mother tongue French in my daily work routine."
"Together with a global team, we work to strengthen GFA's networks in the regions where we are active. In this way, we help ensure that local expertise is effectively incorporated into our projects. It is particularly exciting for us to find approaches that are well suited to each respective region."