Gail Ryser

Gail has worked in social science research for more than 25 years. She is an anthropologist with specialization in archaeology (paleoethnobotany, economic specialization through material culture). As laboratory director of multi-year, multi-site archaeological research projects in South America her responsibilities ranged from data management and artifact registration to teaching under-represented groups in the fields of […]

Carlos Mancilla Caceres

Carlos is a Senior expert in international public health with more than 17 years working experience in humanitarian and development contexts in Latin America, Central Asia and Africa.  He spent 5 years coordinating, advising and implementing national health programmes, policy and systems, working in HIV, Malaria, MDR TB, epidemic control and management – Cholera, ZIKV-, […]

Josephine Hutton

Josephine is a highly experienced and effective senior manager, leader and advisor in development, humanitarian contexts and fragile states. She has over twenty years of experience  in programme, strategic and operational leadership and advisory work. She has worked with institutional donors, international organisations, and NGOs in the Middle East, Africa, Australia, the USA, Asia, Eastern […]

Floor Grootenhuis

Floor is a Dutch/Kenyan artist and consultant who has lived and worked across the world, spending most time in Kenya and Indonesia. She has more than 15 years of experience working with UN organizations including UNFAO and UNWFP, as well as NGOs like Action Against Hunger (ACF), Save the Children, Oxfam, Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), […]

Elora Ferdous

Elora holds a Masters degree in Disaster Management and has 12 years’ experience in management and advisory roles in the international aid sector. Elora is a Disaster Risk Management professional with excellent technical, analytical, and leadership skills. She has played a leading role in the integration of DRM into institutional and organisational strategies, programmes and […]

Isabelle Bremaud

Isabelle holds a BSc in Aid and Development (IFAID, France, 1998) and an MSc by Research in Disaster Management (University of Coventry UK, 2001). She has over 22 years of experience as a volunteer, manager, advisor and consultant in the international aid sector and particularly in the fields of Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation […]

Andrew Onwuemele

Andrew is based in Nigeria and holds a Master of Science in Rural Development Planning and a PhD of Philosophy in Regional Development Planning. As a Research Fellow with the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) in the Environment and Physical Infrastructure Policy Research Department, Andrew has over 10 years of experience in […]

Ale Peter Michael

Peter holds a master’s in International Development Administration (Andrews University, USA) and a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood & Primary Education (Kampala International University, Uganda). He is a dedicated, results-oriented Programme manager/ coordinator in South Sudan with more than seven years of experience leading projects in education in conflict zones. In 2013, he participated in […]

Martha Cifuentes

Martha holds a Bachelor Degree in Social Work (Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala). She has 20 years of experience in humanitarian and international development projects with a large range of donor and implementing organizations (including UNDP, OIM, Trocaire, GIZ, Oxfam, Red Cross and CRS) in Guatemala. She has coordinated, advised, implemented, monitored and evaluated numerous […]

Albanys Cuauro

Albanys is trained in general psychology and psychotherapy (Bachelor degree from Rafael Urdaneta University in Venezuela, Master in Psychotherapy from SEK University in Ecuador). She has worked in disaster settings, carrying out community projects for affected population and humanitarian workers, during the eruption of the Cotopaxí Volcano and the April 2016 earthquake in Ecuador. In […]