As head of CRS’ Food Security and Markets Team, Geraldine (Dina), supports CRS programs as they prepare for and respond to emergencies through market-based approaches, including cash and voucher programs. Her support involves proposal development, technical assistance in implementation, tool development, trainings, and assessments with a focus on market-based approaches in food security. Dina has over 10 years of experience in international agriculture, environment, and food security programming. She holds a Master's degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is based in New Jersey.
Karri is currently the Lead Facilitator for MiC, and brings over 20 years of programme management experience from both emergency and development contexts. She has worked extensively on market systems and livelihoods programming, and more recently has begun helping teams apply adaptive management practices to their work. She supported SEEP Network with the update of the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (part of the Sphere Standards), and is keen to see more collaboration between the private sector and the humanitarian community. Karri is based in Scotland.
Ekram is a polyglot, cross-disciplinary professional, with a multi-national, multi-cultural and multi-lingual background as a Libyan American raised in Europe, and having worked in several Arab and African countries for 16 years. The bulk of Ekram's experience has been with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) for nearly 15 years although her roles have been diverse across the organization. Since April 2017, Ekram has taken on the role of Regional Programme Policy Advisor, first in Emergencies covering the Syria response and then focused on Cash-Based Transfers (CBT) based in Cairo, Egypt.
Pat Foley has 23 years of international cooperation experience with NGOs, UN, Red Cross, government, academia, and the private sector. His anthropological praxis concentrates on participatory socioeconomic analysis of risk, gender, resilience, and impact through assessment, evaluation, and training. Pat's most influential reading on market forces is Caroline Nordstrom’s (2004) Shadows of war: Violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first centuryand Mark Duffield’s (2007) Development, security, and unending war: Governing the world of peoples. He lives in Spain.
Food Security and Livelihood specialist with 8 years of experience in humanitarian emergencies and recovery contexts. Five years of experience conducting market analyses in pre-crisis, first phase response, scale up and recovery contexts. Alexandre was for the past 2.5 years Global FSL Advisor (lead on Markets) at Oxfam, where his role was to promote market analysis and market-based programming to ensure that FSL interventions in emergency, fragile and recovery contexts are informed by solid market analysis. Alexandre is currently working with UNHCR at their Geneva Headquarter as Regional Cash Based interventions Officer. He is responsible for providing remote and in-country support to Operations in East, Central and West Africa in cash and market based programming.
Eileen is an international economic development specialist with more than 15 years of experience designing and implementing programs focused on private sector competitiveness, entrepreneurship, workforce development, local economic development, and household economic strengthening. She is currently working at Chemonics as Director of Economic Growth and Trade Practice, and is based in Washington.
Deb works as a Resilient Livelihoods and Markets Technical Advisor for World Vision International, based in Germany. Her work involves support for programme design, proposal development, trainings, programme implementation and assessments. She started her career in the private sector and after 20 years made her way to humanitarian work with a move to Haiti to respond to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. When she's not working she loves to travel, ride her bike, hike and practice yoga.
Helene is the co-founder of Key Aid Consulting a consultancy group specializing in cash and market-based programming alongside evaluation and capacity strengthening. Helene is a member of the CaLP Technical Advisory Group and the former chair of the CaLP Market working group. Helene is also a lecturer with Science Po Paris and with Manchester University.
Scott has over 10 years’ experience leading design, implementation, monitoring and results measurement of market systems programs worldwide. For most of this time, he focused on economic development and recovery as well as food security programs, but more recently has begun exploring how to adopt market systems tools, methods, and approaches to “non- traditional” market systems including housing, shelter, and labor market systems.
Lili Mohiddin has worked in the humanitarian sector for over 15 years in the field of in food security and livelihoods. She has technical experience in cash-based programming, urban needs assessments, market assessments and capacity building. She is currently employed as regional cash and market adviser for Norwegian Refugee Council in east Africa.
Sasha Muench is Director of Economic and Market Development for Mercy Corps, where she provides institutional leadership and program support on all aspects of economic development for Mercy Corps globally. Sasha has over 18 years of international development experience, and has managed programs at both the country and global level, providing training and technical assistance to teams all over the globe. Previously Sasha worked on microfinance and post-conflict economic recovery in the Balkans, particularly with Partner MFI, and on economic development and post-tsunami recovery in Indonesia. Sasha has a B.A. in economics and international relations from Claremont McKenna College and an M.A. in economics from the University of British Columbia. In 2007 she was an Adjunct Professor and Practitioner in Residence at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, teaching microfinance and conducting independent research on post-emergency economic recovery.
Isabelle is responsible for strategic leadership and quality control across CaLP’s programme work (covering Capacity Building, and Knowledge Management & Research) and manages the global programmes team. She provides technical leadership on CTP within CaLP, and leads technical engagement across the CaLP network.
Isabelle has a technical background in food security and livelihoods, and joined CaLP in September 2015 after years in CTP programme management, advisory and policy roles at agency and inter-agency level. She holds a BA in Human Sciences from Oxford University, a MA in Environment and Development from LSE.
Sandra is an experienced programme manager familiar with humanitarian, conflict, post-conflict contexts, and development programs. She is currently working for IFRC based in Manila, but has experience in Africa, Asia, Central America, Latin America, and the Middle East. Her experience focuses on Disaster Risk Management, Sustainable Livelihoods and Food Security, Cash Transfer Programming, Market assessments, job creation, climate change, environmental, energy, land and water issues, youth and Protection, Gender and Inclusion. Sandra is from Barcelona, Spain, but currently based in Manila.
Corrie has 6 years of experience in humanitarian food security, cash and markets programming and has been with Oxfam as an FSL roving advisor in their humanitarian team for 2 years. She has also worked for other NGOs and since 2012 has managed market based interventions in DR Congo, Mali, Guinea, Iraq, Greece, Niger, South Sudan and now Bangladesh. She holds a Masters from the London School of Oriental and African Studies and is currently still roving globally but in the UK when not deployed.
Emily Sloane is a Cash and Markets Technical Advisor for IRC, and has played a critical role in the administration and governance of MiC over the past few years. At IRC, she manages activities to develop and promote tools, approaches, and dialogue linked to market analysis in the humanitarian community. Prior to joining the IRC, Emily managed and evaluated a range of cash, voucher, and agricultural programs for both Oxfam and ACF in Jordan as well as various sub- Saharan African countries. Emily is based in New York.
Ben is the CEO of Agora Global, who provide training, research, and consulting services in market systems development. He has contributed to innovation and codification of new concepts in private sector development included most recently the Making Markets Work for the Poor approach. His specialisms include applying market systems development approaches to new contexts such as education, water, post-conflict states, resilience and fragility, and basic services. Ben is based in Durham, UK.
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