Alejandro Ruiz-Acevedo currently serves as the chief of party on Inclusive Justice project in Colombia, after concluding his stewardship of the preceding Justice for a Sustainable Peace project in Colombia. He is an experienced chief of party and development specialist with more than 19 years of experience, including with institutional strengthening programs and local initiatives…
Cristina Hardaga Fernández is the chief of party of the Human Rights Accountability Activity (Promoviendo la Rendición de Cuentas por los Derechos Humanos (RED-DH)), a five-year USAID-funded project focused on enhancing the capacity and commitment of the Mexican government to provide effective and accountable responses to grave human rights violations, such as forced disappearances and…
Juan is an expert in social policy, with over 14 years of experience working on the implementation and evaluation of Colombian national policies to overcome extreme poverty. He currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Party – Technical for the $40 million USAID/Colombia Migration Management Activity, the first task order under the Venezuela Response Integration…
Maria Paula Vargas is an international development professional with 25 years of professional experience, including 20 years of project administration experience on complex and high-value projects. She is experienced with facilitating financial management, grants and subcontracts management, compliance oversight, and stakeholder collaborations. She currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Party of Operations for the…
Bryce Watson is the specialist for Chemonics’ Center for Politically Informed Programming. Bryce has experience delivering technical assistance on thinking and working politically (TWP) to over 20 projects across the globe, and in developing innovative approaches to programming such as Systems Prototyping. He also has experience building the capacity of staff to effectively implement these…
Carol Bales is advocacy and policy communications manager at IntraHealth International, where she also leads communications for the Frontline Health Workers Coalition
Luis Fernando Jara is a forestry and climate change expert with 40 years of experience in project design and management, capacity building, and development of the forestry sector across the climatically diverse regions within Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Perú, Ecuador, and other parts of Latin America. He has extensive leadership experience in technical and managerial…
Simon Cole is the distribution center logistics director with the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program’s Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project in Zambia.
Hasan Davulcu is an associate professor of computer science in Arizona State University’s Fulton Schools of Engineering. He is an expert in developing novel data mining techniques and tools for structuring and organizing unstructured sources.
Carolyn Forbes is the assistant director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University, which advances research and education on the dynamics of religion and conflict in global affairs.
Tetyana Dudka is the senior vice president of Chemonics’ Europe and Eurasia regional business unit. She joined Chemonics in 2009 and brings more than 20 years of experience leading and supporting development programs in Europe and Eurasia, with a technical focus on market systems development, competitiveness enhancement, institutional reforms, public-private partnerships, investment and trade promotion,…
India Boland was formerly a senior associate in the Peace, Stability, and Transition Practice and in the Middle East and North Africa Business Unit at Chemonics.