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Alberto Martos Sauquillo

Alberto Martos Sauquillo

Economist, Expert in NGO Management and Expert in E-Learning.

Alberto is an Economist from the Complutense University of Madrid and has postgraduate qualifications in NGO Management and Programme Design from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. He has worked in humanitarian interventions with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, the Red Cross, Movimondo, Oxfam and Caritas.

He has focused his career on working with Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and in the field of humanitarian protection. His experience includes programme coordination, mission administration, proposal-writing, design of training materials, security and monitoring.

Sandra Manrique Baron

Sandra Manrique Baron

Sandra is an Anthropologist from the National University of Colombia. She has worked for the Mayor of Bogota’s office, the Restrepo Barco Foundation and Oxfam GB.

Sandra has worked with internally displaced people and grass-roots organizations in areas such as community work, institutional strengthening, reconstruction, humanitarian protection and monitoring. She is a tutor and has developed training material for the courses.

She has created training material for the courses.

Carlos Afonso Gallegos

Carlos Afonso Gallegos

Carlos has over 20 years of experience working in complex humanitarian situations such Afghanistan, Palestine, the Caucasus, the Horn of Africa or the Syrian refugee crisis. With an academic background on Development, his initial focus was in the area of Food and Economic Security. Yet, through his extensive work in the field with NGOs, the ICRC and ECHO he has developed technical expertise in other fields such Disaster Risk Reduction, Early Rehabilitation and Humanitarian Demining. In addition, as Programme Manager, he is used to deal with all areas of the project cycle. Currently, Carlos works full time for KALU as Head of Studies

Arturo García Fernández

Arturo García Fernández

Arturo is a former Project Manager in a telecommunication company. After many years as a local Red Cross Volunteer in Paris he chose to leave his job to dedicate himself entirely to the humanitarian work. He has created a business that focuses on giving IT support to NGOs, he has experience mainly in Emergencies and particularly in assessments and distributions of NFIs and Cash.

Amélie Yan-Gouiffes

Amélie Yan-Gouiffes

Amelie's passion is to empower people and organisations to share their message and to bring their contribution. She provides consulting in humanitarian & corporate social responsibility (CSR) programming and coaching in public speaking & pitching to corporate, humanitarian and government organisations.

She worked for 17 years in managing humanitarian projects and teams with Premiere Urgence, the French Red Cross, Oxfam GB, ECHO (EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection), Handicap International and UNDP in Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, Latin America & the Caribbean. In the 4 last years, she has facilitated numerous inter-governmental and governmental strategic reviews on disaster risk reduction, resilience, food security and organisational development and coached hundreds of leaders.

She is especially fond of emergency relief, empowerment of people, accountability (towards communities & donors), gender, project design (group brainstorming, logical framework, proposal development).

She is the happy mother of two children born respectively in Nicaragua and Thailand.

Alberto Jodra Marcos

Alberto Jodra Marcos

Alberto is a humanitarian worker with 16 years of field experience with the international organization Médecins Sans Frontieres, first as a logistic manager and then as an operational manager in numerous humanitarian emergency response interventions in 14 countries. In the last 10 years Alberto has served as Head of Mission in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Chad and Cameroon, being responsible for the operational strategy, implementation of activities in response to emergencies, institutional representation, security management, negotiation of the humanitarian space and advocacy. He has also recently participated in the response to COVID19 as MSF emergency coordinator in Spain.

He’s regularly putting his experience at the service of analysis and training, participating both in evaluations dedicated to guiding contextual and programmatic aspects, as well as in induction and mentoring programs to help in the development of professional skills.

Sandra Romero Ruiz

Sandra Romero Ruiz

Working in development and humanitarian sector for more than 22 years. Currently working with UNICEF as Cash Programme Advisor, Knowledge Management and Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) advisor based in Budapest, Hungary.

I have been engaged with the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement since 2010, lately as Regional Head of Partnership Resource Development Unit and Head of Planning Monitoring Evaluation and Response Unit for the IFRC in the Americas.

Working experience in Africa (Burundi and Tanzania), Asia (Cambodia, the Philippines, East Timor, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Mongolia), Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama), Caribbean Region (Haiti), Latin America (Paraguay, Brazil), and the Middle East (Israel, Palestine, Jordan), and Europe (Hungary and Ukraine).

I am a member and Trainer of the IFRC Livelihoods Reference Centre and CaLP, and member of the Advisory board of Market in Crisis (MiC), trainer, and facilitator of the UNSCC roster. I am a member of the roster of CashCap of the Norwegian refugee Council. And I am a faculty member Faculty member of the Joint Master’s Programme in International Humanitarian Action at the DEUSTO University

Matthew Parnaby

Matthew Parnaby

Since the mid-90s, Matthew has focused on delivering primary/public health and nutrition programs across Australia, Africa, Asia, former Soviet Union, Middle East, and Oceania. Matthew has worked with international humanitarian NGOs, health research institutes and centres for disease control. Since 2004, Matthew has conducted and coordinated integrated nutritional surveys in numerous countries as part of emergency responses and therapeutic/supplementary feeding programs. Matthew is passionate about working with teams to provide the necessary tools, including training, to improve the health and nutrition of vulnerable populations. Matthew holds a bachelor’s in nursing and a master’s in public health.

Richard Muyinda

Richard Muyinda

Richard holds a Master’s Degree of Human Nutrition from Gent University (Belgium) with various trainings in nutrition in emergency, malnutrition measurement, assessment and classification. He has over 11 years of experience, working in emergencies and development context (Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo). He has worked with many International Organizations in different capacities such as Nutrition Consultant, Emergency Nutrition Technical Advisor, among others. He has also implemented a number of emergency nutrition projects, and has gained vast knowledge in nutrition in emergencies, measurement and classification of malnutrition, management of malnutrition, forum participation, etc.

Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera

Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera

Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera is a multi-skilled registered nurse with 17 years of experience in the field of public health nutrition working across Africa and Asia. She holds an MSc in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine. She has previously worked for Action Against Hunger-France, Doctors Without Borders, International Medical Corps and Save the Children, before joining Action Against Hunger UK as Head of Nutrition in 2017. She is a guest lecturer at the LSHTM, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Metropolitan and Westminster Universities, King’s College and the American University of Beirut.

Ana Urgoiti Aristegui

Ana Urgoiti Aristegui

Ana is passionate about learning; she loves meeting new people and capacity development and change management are among her main competences. This is why tutoring online is so fun for her.

She holds a degree in Law and postgraduate qualifications in International Law and in Gender and Development.

She has over 25 years’ experience in development assistance and humanitarian action. She is currently based in Panama, before that and as independent consultant she was dedicated to the design and delivery of training activities and material for NGOs, universities, governments, international humanitarian networks and United Nations agencies, as well as conducting evaluations and organizational learning events.

Marilise Turnbull

Marilise Turnbull

Marilise holds a Master’s degree in Development Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages.

Marilise is a highly experienced consultant in the international aid sector. Over the course of her 25 year career, she has managed and evaluated programmes in the fields of human mobility; protection; food security and livelihoods; cash-based interventions; disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; WASH; environment and natural resource management; education; shelter and housing; gender equality; child and youth development. She has worked in complex, volatile contexts related to conflict, and post-disaster settings.

Marilise has extensive experience in Disaster Risk Reduction. Over her career, she has guided the integration of DRR and climate change adaptation into the policies, strategies and programmes of NGOs, donors, the Red Cross/Crescent, governmental and inter-governmental entities. Highlights include founding Oxfam’s Risk Reduction and Adaptation unit and leading its first DRR and Adaptation strategy; publishing Toward Resilience: A Practitioner’s Guide to DRR and CCA (2013) for a consortium of six leading development agencies, developing the IFRC’s guidance and training pack for national societies working to strengthen community resilience, Road Map to Resilience (2016, updated 2021), and many other practitioner-oriented resources.

As an independent consultant, Marilise currently supports NGOs, donors, multi-agency consortia, and UN agencies in the areas of strategic planning, capacity-building, evaluation and learning, policy and tool development, and research.

Stéphane Senia

Stéphane Senia

Stephane has been engineer and team leader for almost ten years in the aerospace industry before dedicating to humanitarian and development work. He has been managing humanitarian and development projects and operations for 12 years within International NGOs’ at various roles from program manager to country director. He worked in over 10 countries such as Haiti, Iraq, Syria and Myanmar with Action Against Hunger, Solidarités International, Save the Children, Handicap International and CARE International. Stephane holds an Engineering Master’s degree and a Graduate Certificate of Humanitarian Leadership delivered by Deakin University. Stephane is now based in Venezuela and has been Country Director for various organisations in the country.

Jose Jodar Vidal

Jose Jodar Vidal

PhD in Development and International Cooperation, Master in African Studies (School of Oriental and African Studies of University of London) and postgraduate in Applied Economy and Social Politics. José is currently working as Cash and Markets Thematic Manager for NORCAP / part of Norwegian Refugee Council and has previously worked for almost 4 years as Senior Technical Advisor at CALP Network / Cash Learning Partnership. Overall, José has more than 15 years of experience in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid combining academic and professional activity with different organisations (including Spanish Red Cross, Action Agaisnt Hunger, Spanish Agency of International Development) and roles (technical advisor, project manager, etc.), and in many different contexts (Latin America, Middle East and Sub-saharan Africa).

Pablo Cabrero Diego

Pablo Cabrero Diego

Bachelor Degree in Environmental Science and Expert Postgraduate Degree in Inequality, Cooperation and Development. Several specialization trainings and courses in Humanitarian Response and WASH projects management.
8 years’ experience as project coordinator in development and emergency contexts in several organizations such as Medicus Mundi, Red Cross or UNESCO. At present, member of different professional rosters for emergency immediate response in public health and WASH sectors. Independent WASH consultant.

Gregory Bulit

Gregory Bulit

Gregory holds a MSc in Environmental-Health issues (Paris-Saclay University), a Post-Graduate Certificate in Water, sanitation and hygiene (WEDC, Loughborough University) and in Environmental management (University College Dublin).

He started to work as humanitarian officer in 2001 in Albania with Solidarites International. He then worked with various organizations such as Action Against Hunger, the French Red Cross, Solidarités International again and Unicef in multiple countries across Africa, Central America and Asia. Gregory coordinated the national response to the cholera outbreak in Haiti from 2014 to 2018 as UNICEF Emergency Chief, before joining UNICEF HQ as WASH Emergency Response Team member until February 2021. He is now with UNDP as Malaria Program Manager in Haiti.

Cristina de Nicolás

Cristina de Nicolás

Cristina holds a degree in Political Sciences and postgraduate qualifications in Humanitarian Action and Conflictology.
She has over fiveteen years experience in humanitarian action and development; experience working internationally in strengthening health systems, organizational development, institutional strengthening and capacity building. She has worked for a cross section of development agencies and donors, including ECHO, USAID and the Global Fund. Her experiences include strategic design, evaluation, monitoring, identification and training development tools in Project Cycle Management, mainly with Action Against Hunger International and Médecins Sans Frontières and development of governance tools such as Manuals of Monitoring and Evaluation. She has worked in various contexts and regions, including former Soviet Republics (Caucasus, Central Asia and Russian Federation), South East Asia, Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and Caribbean, Oceania, etc.

Marie-Jeanne Perrelet

Marie-Jeanne Perrelet

Marie-Jeanne is a sociologist, specialised in international cooperation and development project management; she holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology and in international cooperation and humanitarian aid. She also completed a course in Humanitarian Action at the CERAH (Humanitarian Aid Training and Research Centre in Switzerland). Her humanitarian experience includes 7 years of working within the Red Cross Movement in a variety of projects in Colombia and more than 8 years at Head quarter in Switzerland. She has been trained and active with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent emergency response network in Central and South America (PADRU). She has directly worked in different phases of humanitarian and development programmes in a large spectre of sectors. She is particularly interested in participative approaches, the link between humanitarian relief and development aspects and the specifics needs and problems of children.

Oscar Zuluaga

Oscar Zuluaga

Oscar has been a member of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement in the Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific and Middle East for many years. He has worked in different posisitons for National Societies, the International Federation and the ICRC. Among other publications, he participated in 1994 in the elaboration of the most important First Aid manual and Tropical Diseases in Spanish.

Currently he dedicates his time to train humanitarian workers, to develop online courses and to create different educational tools in order to improve the volunteering work worldwide and the capacity building activities at local level.

Beatriz Gonzalez de Suso

Beatriz Gonzalez de Suso

Beatriz was born in Burgos, Spain. She is Agronomist with an extensive experience in international contexts. During 14 years she has been working in different countries such as Armenia, Angola, Peru, Ethiopia, Somalia, Liberia, Soudan, Palestine and Bosnia.

Since 2012 she lives permanently in Spain. In the field, she worked with Action Against Hunger, ICRC and during 7 years she has been the representative of ECHO in Palestine, Soudan and The Balkans. In Spain, she was Program Director of Plan International and Deputy Director of Action Aid. Now she is Senior Consultant in Environmental and Humanitarian aid.

Her career was mainly focused in Humanitarian Operations in particular in Food Security, Cash and Protection. She has experience as well in Rural Development, Environment and Climate Change interventions.

Ines Dalmau

Ines Dalmau

Ines holds a degree in Political Science and Sociology, postgraduate qualifications in Social Research, Humanitarian Aid and Development and a Master Degree in Business and Administration (MBA)

She is a humanitarian aid professional with over 17 years of experience in assessment, program design, implementation and evaluation that has worked in relief, recovery and long-term development programs covering post-conflict, slow-onset and sudden disasters. She has particular expertise in the livelihoods sector, Cash Transfer Programming/markets analysis and a robust experience in capacity building and as a facilitator.

As an independent consultant, she currently works mostly on the design and delivery of training and conducting needs assessments and evaluations. She has developed and delivered several trainings for UNHCR, the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement, and AECID.

Victoria Fontan

Victoria Fontan

PhD in Peace and Development Studies from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Doctorate of Education from the Universidad La Salle, Costa Rica. I am Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the American University of Afghanistan. I am also a visiting in Mexico, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to my experience in academia, I have more than 15 years' experience in peace-building and development. I have worked for the UN and the OSCE, and have researched on a variety of topics such as safeguarding, ethics in peace-building, and the humanitarian-peace-development nexus.

Aitor Joseba Landa

Aitor Joseba Landa

Aitor holds a Degree in Law and a postgraduate qualification in International Cooperation and Governability. He has 14 years’ experience in Africa, Europe, South America and the Caribbean.

Aitor has worked for UNDP, CARE International, SNV, Grupo Cívico Etica y Transparencia (a member of Transparency International), the municipal government of Salvatierra (Mexico), and as an independent consultant. His areas of expertise are urban management, local development and decentralization, project coordination for cooperation and development and disaster management. He has also undertaken conflict-resolution studies and projects.

Alberto Gómez Susaeta

Alberto Gómez Susaeta

A graduate of the Complutense University of Madrid, Alberto is a sociologist, teacher and expert in NGO management.

He has 14 years’ experience in Central America for the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, with Fe y Alegria, and as an independent consultant. Alberto has expertise in the design and implementation of projects, and in conducting assessments and evaluations.

Marta Oliviero

Marta Oliviero

Marta has a degree in Political Science with a focus on International Relations, as well as post-graduate qualifications in International Cooperation and Development and Gender Studies.

Marta has 6 years’ experience working in the fields of human rights, development and humanitarian aid in Colombia and Central America, firstly with Peace Brigades International and latterly with Movimondo.

Alma Migens

Alma Migens

Alma Migens holds an MSc in Hydrology and Water Management and a BSc in Environmental Sciences. She's a seasoned WASH professional with extensive experience in humanitarian work. She has played a significant role in large-scale emergency responses in various regions, including Honduras, Ecuador, Peru, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, OPT, Yemen, and Bangladesh. Alma has supported multiple international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) as a WASH advisor and international consultant.

William Berbon

William Berbon

William brings two decades of experience in international organizations (MSF, ACF, ACTED, French Red Cross, Save the Children, NCA and UNICEF) as WASH Program Manager, Trainer, Technical Advisor, Cluster Coordinator and HQ Specialist. He worked throughout the world, in development and humanitarian contexts. Trained as a Humanitarian WASH Project Manager by Bioforce in 2002, William recently obtained a MSc in "Water and Environment Management" (University of Loughborough). He is an expert in WASH and integrated sectorial approaches, specializing in disability-inclusive WASH. William also excels as an illustrator and graphic designer.

Franck Gressard

Franck Gressard

Franck is an independent consultant with over 15 years of experience in humanitarian and development contexts in Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, such as Afghanistan, Indonesia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.

He holds a Master’s in Public Health, is a registered nurse and has a degree in Tropical medicine and International Health. He also has a Master’s in Business and Administration. He worked with Action Contre la Faim, Médecins du Monde and the World Food Programme. He has extensive experience as a Logistics Coordinator, Nutrition Programme Manager, Nutrition Emergency Coordinator and Nutrition Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Officer. As a consultant, Franck focuses on project evaluations.

Jessica Bourdaire

Jessica Bourdaire

Jessica is a Nutrition and Public Health consultant with over 12 years’ experience, mainly in emergency settings, designing, implementing, advising, monitoring and evaluating Nutrition programmes and related research. She has worked across Africa and Asia with organisations such as Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, and most recently, with the United Nations World Food Programme. She holds a BSc in Nursing, a University Diploma in Public Health and a MSc in Nutrition. She speaks English, French and Spanish.

Rudy Martínez

Rudy Martínez

Civil and logistics engineer from Polytech Clermont-Ferrand (France). He has more than 19 years of experience in international cooperation projects (development, humanitarian aid and emergencies) in more than 50 countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, mainly in the sectors of WASH, Environment and Climate Change, Food Security, Agriculture, Local Economic Growth and Development, Health and Nutrition. He has extensive experience in developing and evaluating cooperation strategies and policies. He works as an independent consultant for both International Cooperation Agencies, United Nations system, several NGOs and international engineering corporations. He is bilingual in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English.

Peter Okullo

Peter Okullo

A WASH Specialist with over 18 years of work experience in humanitarian situations. Coordinated and managed the implementation of emergency WASH Projects in Uganda, Zambia, Sudan, Philippines, Nepal, South Sudan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Yemen, Lebanon, and Nigeria.
Has an academic background in Engineering and Public Health with proven hands-on experience in planning, designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH projects.
Has also extensive experience in coordination, management, capacity building, dealing with stake holders and implementing partners. He is currently deployed as a consultant with UNICEF.

Camilo Valderrama

Camilo Valderrama

Camilo is a medical doctor, public health professional and PHd in development studies with over twenty years of experience in the coordination and implementation of emergency health responses in conflict and disaster settings. He has worked with ministries of health, donors, international NGOs and UN agencies in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East in different positions such as health cluster coordinator, technical advisor, programme manager, public health officer, health coordinator and programme manager.

William Mondeh

William Mondeh

Environmentalist and hydrogeologist, researcher in the field of water and environmental sciences as well as holder of the prestigious master's degree in international cooperation and humanitarian aid from Kalu, William is keen on Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH) interventions in various contexts including emergencies. He has held several positions of responsibility related to WASH within several INGOs both at the national and international levels. His field of predilection lies in the search for innovative solutions to respond to the challenges of access to inclusive WASH services at affordable costs with a view to strengthening the resilience of the communities served.
William has extensive experience in training and support (online and face-to-face) on topics related to the provision of WASH services in emergency situations.

Óscar Serrano

Óscar Serrano

Óscar studied and worked as a nurse in many hospitals and EU countries before he joined MSF and started his journey specializing in the treatment of Acute Malnutrition in Emergencies, first in Angola and then Niger. He has over 10 years of experience supporting such programs and capacity building in over 20 countries working for several NGO, doing SMART surveys and other kinds of programming such as Nutrition in Ebola settings. Lately, he has advised at HQ for different charities such as ACF USA, GOAL Ireland and UNICEF UK.