Gordon is a young professional with experience in economic development and communications management in multiple organizations. He gained an in-depth knowledge of project management and event organization as well as communications development while working as Project Manager in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Thailand, and as Managing Partner of the Howe International Consulting Group and its subsidiary the Friendship League. Gordon also contributed to social, rural and community development projects while working as a Communication Strategy Consultant in the Environment and Development Division of the United Nations ESCAP. While there he led the outreach strategy of an economic development initiative, the Pro-Poor Public-Private Partnership (5P) Project, targeting key private sector investors in the region and providing high-visibility for the project.

Before joining the 5P project, Gordon worked as a consultant in ESCAP’s Trade and Investment Division for two years, which provided him with extensive expertise of SME development. During this time he acted as the project coordinator for various regional events, tasked with bringing together key actors from the business sector in the Asia-Pacific region as well as conducted research on economic development issues. He also acted as a focal point in the coordination of activities of the ESCAP Business Advisory Council (EBAC), a group of senior executives providing business analyses of development issues in the Asia-Pacific region to governments.

In 2014, Gordon worked on the Myanmar Business Survey (MBS), organized by the United Nations ESCAP, OECD and UMFCCI. The MBS was the first-ever and most comprehensive national survey of businesses in Myanmar. Gordon also contributed to several publications including the two volumes of the OECD Multi-dimensional Review of Myanmar, ARTNeT Working Paper N°142: A New Policy Framework for Myanmar’s SME and the Business for Development paper: Capacity building of SMEs in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Since 2009, he runs in an advertising agency based in France — Artemis and Co, implementing internal and external communications strategies and providing services and guidance to local and regional actors as much from the public as from the private sector.