Former Synergos Staff
John Tomlinson
John Tomlinson is a consultant to The Synergos Institute, working on its communications and outreach efforts.
He was a member of Synergos' staff from 1991 through 2006, holding a variety of positions with the organization, including Program Assistant and Associate Director, Public Affairs. His work included contributing to the production and distribution of information about Synergos, its programs and learning from its research activities in print and electronic formats. He designed (and continues to manage) Synergos' website, assists staff in improving the quality of their communications and helps plan and conduct a variety of outreach events. Mr. Tomlinson also worked directly on a number of Synergos' programs, including supporting successful efforts to establish grantmaking foundations in Southern Africa and Latin America and managing a program of exchanges between nonprofit groups in the US and developing countries about community-based efforts to overcome poverty. He also coordinated policy research and outreach on partnership approaches to development problems and on cooperation between grantmaking foundations and official development assistance agencies.
He has written papers on partnership approaches to development, replication of community-based development experience between countries, the scale and nature of civil society in Latin America, and on grantmaking foundations in developing countries.
He holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Harvard College and an MA in International Relations from Yale University, where he was a Sasakawa Young Leadership Fellow. Prior to joining Synergos, he worked as an English language teacher at the South China University of Technology and as a lecturer at the Guangdong Province Technical Cadre Advanced Training Institute, both in Guangzhou, China.
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