Olga Ponamarova (she/her/hers) is a gender and social inclusion specialist with more than 10 years of experience in project management working with and within civil society organizations and humanitarian response and development projects in Ukraine. Olga has…
Dr. Mette Bastholm Jensen
Consortium Deputy Director, Cross-Border Conflict, Evidence, Policy and Trends (XCEPT) Research Programme
Mette Bastholm Jensen has spent more than a decade working on and in fragile and conflict-affected environments. Combining a research background with extensive field and government experience, she has spent much of her career conducting and…
Sarah Ahmed
Senior Vice President, Talent, Learning, and Development
Sarah Ahmed is a development professional with 17 years of experience in U.S. government-funded projects in democracy and governance, and peace, stability, and transition across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. As senior vice…
Luke Waggoner is a former senior democracy and governance specialist at Chemonics.
Niki Wood
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Practice Lead, Chemonics UK
Niki Wood is an award-winning mixed-methods Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) expert, specialising in weaving together behavior change theory, complexity science, and systems-thinking into accessible and participatory approaches for project teams. She is currently the MEL…
Alejandro Ruiz-Acevedo
Chief of Party, Inclusive Justice Project
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…
Sahar Tabaja
Global Practice Lead, Peace, Stability, and Transition
Sahar Tabaja is a conflict specialist with more than 15 years of experience designing and managing stabilization, governance, P/CVE, and peacebuilding programs in the Middle East. Her work has focused on exploring how youth, women, civil…
Bilal Al Ayoubi
Task Order Director, Lebanon Community Support Program
Bilal Al Ayoubi is the Task Order 2 director of USAID’s Lebanon Community Support Program (CSP). He previously served as the senior program development specialist on the Chemonics-implemented Lebanon Civic Support Initiative and as senior transition…