About
Our team
Meet the team powering our work
Bo Viktor Nylund, Director
João Pedro Azevedo, Deputy
Director, Data and Analytics
Andrea Suley, Deputy Director,
Programme Effectiveness
Maria Luisa Fornara,
Associate Director
Carina Kabajunga Wangwe,
Associate Director
Teams
| Bo Viktor Nylund, Director |
| Celine Little, Executive Editor |
| Patricia Arquero Caballero, Executive Associate |
| Ethics in Evidence |
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| Karen Carter, Senior Adviser |
| Partnerships and Convening |
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| Victoria Stephenson, Chief |
| Lisa Gastaldin, Programme Associate |
| People and Culture |
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| Arber Stublla, Chief People and Culture |
| Olga Ipsics, People and Culture Assistant |
| Josephine Dariol, Senior People and Culture Associate |
| Baptiste Quere, People and Culture Officer |
| Elena Dusi, People and Culture Assistant |
| Ramya Subrahmanian, Deputy Director a.i., Research and Foresight |
| Digital Engagement and Protection |
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| Daniel Kardefelt Winther, Chief |
| Steven Edwin Vosloo, Policy Manager |
| Bella Baghdasaryan, Research Specialist |
| Marium Hussein, Research Specialist |
| Camila Perera Aladro, Research Specialist |
| Jennifer Quarti, Programme Specialist |
| Jessica Lynn Bergmann, Research Specialist |
| Education |
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| Linda Jones, Chief |
| Amparo Barrera, Executive Assistant |
| Carolina Alban, Research Manager |
| Bertrand Tagne Tameza, Research Officer |
| Tuamanaia Elisapeta Foimapafisi, Research Specialist |
| Thomas Wells Dreesen, Education Manager |
| Ghalia Ghawi, Education Specialist |
| Marco Valenza, Research Specialist |
| Joaquin Carceles Martinez Lozano, Research Specialist |
| Foresight and Policy |
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| Thi Minh Phuong Ngo, Chief |
| Melvin Breton Guerrero, Policy Manager |
| Cristina Colon, Policy Manager |
| Gender Equality, Child Rights and Protection |
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| Ramya Subrahmanian, Chief |
| Tessa Maria Griffiths, Executive Assistant |
| Camila Teixeira, Policy Specialist |
| Alessandra Guedes, Gender & Development Manager |
| Manahil Siddiqi, Research Specialist |
| Josiah Kaplan, Child Protection Specialist |
| Planet, Participation and Wellbeing |
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| Gwyther Rees, Chief |
| Lara Stefanizzi, Executive Assistant |
| Juliano Diniz de Oliveira, Policy Analysis Specialist |
| Rouslan Karimov, Statistics Specialist |
| Shai Naides, Youth Engagement Manager |
| Alessandro Carraro, Research Specialist |
| Benjamin Hickler, Social & Behavior Change Manager |
| Ross Mcintosh, Research Specialist |
| Social and Economic Policy |
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| Gustavo Angeles Tagliaferro, Chief Social Policy & Economic Analysis |
| Maura Miarelli, Executive Assistant |
| Juliana Nyasha Tirivayi, Social Policy Manager |
| Valeria Groppo, Social Policy Specialist |
| Mathilde Heloise C. Van Drooghenbroeck, Research Specialist |
| Kaku Attah Damoah, Social Policy Specialist |
| Joao Pedro Azevedo, Deputy Director, Data and Analytics |
| Amy Lai, Executive Associate |
| Gladys Babirye Bagandanswa Nacuka, Statistics & Monitoring Officer |
| Child Poverty, Disparity and Wellbeing |
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| Enrique Delamónica, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring |
| Lauren Pandolfelli, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Child Protection, Development and Disability |
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| Claudia Cappa, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring |
| Munkhbadar Jugder, Statistics Officer |
| Colleen Murray, Statistics & Monitoring Specialist |
| Data Collection |
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| Andrea Rossi, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring |
| Miguel Bountsolas Ferrer, Programme Assistant |
| Yadigar Coskun, Statistics & Monitoring Specialist |
| Turgay Unalan, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Eva Quintana, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Tatjana Karaulac, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Ivana Bjelic, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Demographics, Migration and Health |
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| Danzhen You, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring |
| Lucia Hug, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Yang Liu, Statistics & Monitoring Specialist |
| David Sharrow, Statistics & Monitoring Specialist |
| Marzia Rango, Programme Manager |
| Education |
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| Karen Avanesian, Statistics & Monitoring Specialist |
| Sakshi Mishra, Statistics & Monitoring Specialist |
| Geospatial and Computational Analysis |
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| Yves Jaques, Chief |
| Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Data Science Specialist |
| Viviana Canon Tamayo, Programme Specialist |
| Jan Burdziej, Digital Impact Manager |
| Daniele Olivotti, Digital Impact Specialist |
| Integrated Health Analytics |
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| Maria Muniz, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring |
| Danilo Salvatore Maccarrone, Programme Assistant |
| George Mwinnyaa, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Yoshito Kawakatsu, Statistics Specialist |
| Lauren Francis, Statistics & Monitoring Officer |
| Tashrik Ahmed, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Khaing Soe, Statistics Specialist |
| Chibwe Lwamba, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Savvy Brar, Statistics Officer |
| Nutrition |
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| Chika Hayashi, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring |
| Nona Reuter, Art & Design Specialist |
| Vrinda Mehra, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Hassan Ali Ahmed, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Joel Conkle, Statistics Specialist |
| WASH and Climate Environment |
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| Tom Slaymaker, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring |
| Ayca Donmez, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Dohyung Kim, Data Science Specialist |
| Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan, Statistics & Monitoring Manager |
| Jorge Bica, Statistics & Monitoring Specialist |
| Andrea Suley, Deputy Director, Programme Effectiveness |
| Monitoring and Results Management |
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| Shalini Guduri, Programme Manager |
| Avrile Pacifique Niyibizi, Programme Specialist |
| Jasmin Suministrado, Knowledge Management Manager |
| Poornima Ravi Shankar, Knowledge Management Specialist |
| Fatoumatta Sabally, Programme Manager |
| Akshay Sinha, Monitoring Specialist |
| Slavi Nikolov, Risk and Compliance Manager |
| Hasan Alawi, Programme Specialist |
| Organizational Performance and Corporate Systems |
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| Zainab Al-Azzawi, Chief |
| Noemi Carella, Programme Assistant |
| Sanjana Gaddam, Programme Manager |
| Sarina KC, Programme Officer |
| Wazir Khan Ahmadzai, Programme Specialist |
| Risk Management in Programming and Safeguarding |
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| Angela Bettiol, Chief |
| Alessandro Merlini, Data Protection and Privacy Specialist |
| Mario Viola De Azevedo Cunha, Data Protection and Privacy Specialist |
| Jean Mege, Programme Manager |
| Laura Leanne Madsen, Programme Specialist |
| Aleksandra Vidojevic, Programme Manager |
| Emeline Tacheau Kowalewski, Programme Specialist |
| Strategic Planning and Analytics |
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| Cairan O'Toole, Chief |
| Francesca Morandini, Programme Manager |
| Elmira Nessipbayeva, Programme Specialist |
| Tilda Christensson, Programme Specialist |
| Patrick Matala, Planning Manager |
| Carina Kabajunga Wangwe, Associate Director |
| Anna Maria Levi, Programme Manager |
| Paul Wando Mungai, Project Specialist |
| Maria-Luisa Fornara, Associate Director |
| Communication and Advocacy |
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| Brian Keeley, Chief Advocacy and Communications |
| Tara Dooley, Communication Specialist |
| Kathleen Amanda Edison, Design Specialist |
| Belén Arce Terceros, Advocacy and Communications Officer |
| Anike Alli-Hakeem, Communication Specialist |
| Alessandra Solazzo, Executive Assistant |
| Sahiba Minhas Turgesen, Communication Specialist |
| Operations |
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| Benjamin Kilonzo, Chief of Operations |
| Maria Andronic, Chief of Operations |
| Arno Johnstone, Chief of Operations |
| Mihai Gaitos, Senior Digital Impact Associate |
| Marcello Lancellotti, Digital Impact Assistant |
| Laura Meucci, Senior Administrative & Finance Associat |
| Roberta Sala, Administrative & Finance Assistant |
| Daniele Regoli, Administrative Assistant |
| Lisa Pecorini, Administrative Assistant |
| Programme and Planning |
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| Faizah Samat, Chief Programme & Planning |
| Bernadette Rai, Planning Specialist |
