Senior Fellows

Argentina

Agustina Cavanagh is Executive Director of Fundación Cimientos, an Argentinean nonprofit organization that works to improve access, permanence, and quality in the formal educational system of children and youth from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Alberto Croce as Executive Director of Fundación SES (Sustainability, Education, Solidarity), promotes and develops different strategies that strive for the inclusion of Argentinian teenagers with fewer opportunities.

Mariana Lomé is Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program on Nonprofit Organizations at San Andrés University in Buenos Aires.

Australia

Darren Godwell is a private consultant in Australia and a founder of Australia's first aboriginally-controlled national foundation.

Bangladesh

Mashuda Khatun Shefali is the founding Executive Director of Nari Uddug Kendra (NUK), its English meaning is Centre for Women's Initiatives, which works to promote gender equality, human rights and personal and political empowerment of women and girls in Bangladesh since 1991.

Brazil

Luiz Alfaya an executive specializing in third sector institutions, was recently CEO of Instituto Rukha, working to end child labor and violence through programs for children, their families and communities.

Beatriz Azeredo founding Director of Instituto Desiderata in Rio de Janeiro, played an important role in the development and regulation of Brazil's constitution.

Rosangela Berman-Bieler is Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute on Disability and Inclusive Development, an organization focused on human rights and inclusive development throughout Latin America.

Lucia Dellagnelo Gomes Vieria founded Instituto Comunitario Grande Florianopolis with the mission to mobilize, articulate and improve social investments made by different sectors in the Florianopolis region of Brazil.

Amalia Fischer Pfaeffle founded the Angela Borba Fund for Women to raise awareness of the need to support women's causes.

Lygia Fontanella currently a private consultant, previously worked with CARE and the Abrinq Foundation for Children's Rights in Brazil.

Celso Grecco is President of Atitude Marketing Social, one of the first social-marketing agencies in Brazil, and the creator of the Social Stock Exchange within BOVESPA, the largest stock exchange in Latin America.

Marcos Kisil is President of the Institute for the Development of Social Investment, which aims to promote private social investment as a means of developing a more just and sustainable society in Brazil.

Antonio Martinelli is a private consultant promoting corporate social responsibility in Brazil and throughout Latin America.

Athayde Motta is Executive Director of the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity, a newly-created, Brazilian grantmaking organization which will run its own endowment. Its main goal is to promote racial equity in Brazilian society.

Maria (Malu) Nunes is Executive Director of Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza, an internationally-recognized Brazilian nature conservation institution.

Rebecca Raposo is the founder of Ousare and Ceos, two organizations that promote and develop philanthropy and the social sector in Brazil.

Fernando Rossetti Ferreira is Executive Director of the Group of Institutes, Foundations & Enterprises (GIFE) in Brazil, an association of more than eighty private social investors.

Fernanda Bornhausen Sá is founder and President of Instituto Voluntarios em Ação (IVA), a Volunteer Center based in Brazil, which aims to mobilize, engage, and train volunteers and NGOs.

Andrés Thompson is an independent consultant with extensive experience in Latin America. .

Ana Maria Wilheim currently an independent consultant in Brazil promoting human rights and social development, formerly led the Abrinq Foundation for Children's Rights.

Cameroon

Anne-Stella Fomunbod promotes human rights, good governance, health and AIDS prevention and socio-economic empowerment of women, widows and orphans.

Canada

Monica Patten is President and CEO of Community Foundations of Canada, a network of over 155 community foundations.

Chile

Lake Sagaris is co-founder and President of Living City (Ciudad Viva), a community organization and center for citizen-led urban planning based in Santiago.

China

Lily Liu is founding Country Director of Marie Stopes International China (MSIC), which provides reproductive-health education and HIV prevention and care in nine provinces of China.

Wangsheng Li is president of ZeShan Foundation, which is committed to improving the lives of the less privileged in the world through the spirit of philanthropy.

Colombia

Guillermo Carvajalino is Executive Director of the Foundation of Businesspeople for Education, focusing on the corporate sector's role in improving educational systems.

Catalina Cock Duque is the Executive Director of Mi Sangre Foundation, created by the social leader and artist Juanes to contribute to peace building in Colombia. Mi Sangre provides psychosocial assistance to children and youth affected by landmines and it promotes education for peace so they can become active agents of change.

Oscar Rojas is Executive Director of Fundación AlvarAlice and was recognized with the Colombian Education Department’s top award for his contributions to the country’s higher-education sector.

Costa Rica

Bernardo Toro as an analyst on the Advisory Board of the Avina Foundation, works to further sustainable development through alliances between businesses and philanthropic organizations across Latin America.

Czech Republic

Jiří Bárta is Executive Director of the VIA Foundation in Prague, helping to strengthen democracy by empowering communities and individuals in the Czech Republic.

Ecuador

Boris Cornejo is Vice President of the Esquel Foundation, an institution that has impacted the lives of more than 700,000 Ecuadorian children and youth, women, and indigenous people.

Egypt

Hisham El Rouby is the founder and CEO of Youth and Development Consultancy Institute YDCI, working to help young Egyptians develop technical and leadership skills and become effective contributors to society by providing them with volunteer and job opportunities.

Ethiopia

Tesfay Alemseged is Founder and Secretariat of Beles-based Production and Processing Initiative (BPPI), a multi-partner regional program working to utilize beles (opuntia ficus indica - the barbary fig or prickly pear) as an entry point for ecological restoration and construction of sustainable livelihood in semi-arid hillsides of Ethiopia.

Abera Tola Gada is Regional Director of Oxfam America’s Horn of Africa Program. Abera leads the agency’s efforts to change the lives of poor and marginalized people in one of the most poverty-stricken and conflict-suffering areas in the world.

Germany

Jürgen Griesbeck believes in the power of football for positive social change and that only as a team we will be able to address the most pressing challenges.

Ghana

Olabisi (Bisi) Adeleye-Feyemi is Executive Director and co-founder of the African Women's Development Fund, the first Africa-wide fundraising and grant-making organization for African women.

Hungary

Sándor Köles is Senior Vice President for Programs and Development at the International Centre for Democratic Transition, an organization that captures Hungarian and Central European knowledge on transitioning to democracy.

India

Bharati Chaturvedi is founder and Director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, focusing on issues of urban poverty, consumption, and sustainable livelihoods for the informal sector in India.

Sumita Ghose is Founder and managing director of Rangsutra, a social enterprise which seeks to bring about socio economic development and inclusive growth in rural India by engaging both : the community and the market. Rangsutra is owned by over a thousand artisans- most of whom are women.

KS Murthy is CEO of Bhavishya Alliance, a multi-sectoral partnership between corporate, government, UNICEF, and local civil-society organizations that is co-creating solutions for reduction of child malnutrition in India.

Pushkin Phartiyal is Executive Director of the Central Himalayan Environment Association (CHEA), a pioneer NGO in the Indian Himalayan region, working on sustainable development of the mountains and mountain people.

Pushpa Aman Singh is CEO of GuideStar India, India’s first fully-searchable online database of nonprofits, advancing transparency, enabling better decision-making, and encouraging charitable giving in Indian civil society.

Priya Viswanath is CEO of Charities Aid Foundation India and founder of Catalyst-Social Development Consultants, and has been working with social-development issues in India for more than a decade.

Vanita Viswanath (India) is the CEO of Udyogini, an organization providing business development services to poor women in the backward and remote regions of India. Established in 1992, Udyogini works to empower poor women through micro-enterprise development and management focusing on the strategic initiatives of promoting gender-inclusive value chains, market linkages and training in vocational and business skills in 8 backward states of India.

Indonesia

Ismid Hadad is Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Philanthropy and a founding member of KEHATI, an Indonesian biodiversity foundation.

Abdi (Yenni) Suryaningati is Deputy Director for Organizational Development and International Relations of Yappika Civil Society Alliance for Democracy in Jakarta.

Israel

Richard Deckelbaum (Israel/USA) is director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University, integrating basic scientific discovery with capacity-building in global health and health education.

Jamaica

David Smith is founder and Managing Director of Business and Environment Management Services based in Jamaica.

Jordan

Deema W. Bibi is the CEO of INJAZ, a member nation of Junior Achievement Worldwide. Ms. Bibi elevated the work scope of INJAZ to new horizons reaching out to all governorates of the Kingdom of Jordan, her strategic plans and directives enabled INJAZ to develop high impact programs, expand the programs to reach-out to more than 120,000 students annually.

Kenya

Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo is Executive Director of the African Institute for Health & Development in Kenya, an institution that conducts research, training, and advocacy on health and development issues.

Janet Mawiyoo is CEO of the Kenya Community Development Foundation, the only public foundation in Kenya.

Monica Mutuku is the former Secretary of the East Africa Association of Grantmakers, an initiative of a group of trusts and foundations working in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya.

Elkanah Odembo before serving as Kenya’s Ambassador to the United States and to France, was at the forefront of promoting civil society and corporate social responsibility in Kenya.

Meitamei Olol-Dapash is Founder and Executive Director of the Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition (MERC) a registered community-based organization in Kenya. MERC is a network of grassroots organizations and activists promoting the rights of the Maasai community and the environment. Monica Tapia - Mexico

William Okedi is the field director for HIV/AIDS at the Center for Global Development, and serves on the Support Group of the Techincal Review Panel of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria.

Mexico

Jaime Bolaños is Chief Executive of the Oaxaca Community Foundation, working to foster the participation of society in civil affairs and to improve the quality of life of Oaxacan communities.

Adriana Cortes is Director of the Bajio Community Foundation in Mexico, and has spent much of her professional life developing and strengthening the non-profit community in her native Irapuato.

Agustín Landa is currently Vice-President for Development at the Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla, and is one of the founders of the Puebla Community Foundation in Mexico.

Lorenzo Rosenzweig is Executive Director of the Mexican Nature Conservation Fund, an institution that provides subgrants to conservation projects throughout Mexico.

Javier Vargas is President of La Liga Iberoamericana de Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil, a civil-society network connected to eighteen countries.

Karen Yarza Seiber is Executive Director of the Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte, which supports youth and social-justice activities in the border city of Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.

Mónica Tapia is Founder and Executive Director of Alternativas y Capacidades, a capacity building organization with the mission of contributing to Mexico’s social development by strengthening civil society organizations, advocacy coalitions, grantmakers and policies for enabling civil society to grow.

Morocco

M’hammed Abbad Andaloussi is the president of Al Jisr and works to create a responsible citizen sector, through mobilization the collaboration between businesses, the community, and the government in improving the educational system in Morocco.

Mozambique

Carlos Fumo is an independent consultant and promotes the emergence of local non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations in various parts of Mozambique.

Narciso Matos is Executive Director of the Foundation for Community Development (FDC) in Mozambique, a civic organization that seeks to join together the forces of all sectors of society to promote development, democracy, and social justice.

Namibia

Len le Roux is Director for Partnerships in Southern Africa at the Synergos Institute. Before joining Synergos, Len was the director of the Rössing Foundation in Windhoek, Namibia.

Nepal

Sharmila Karki is the Founder President and Executive Chief of Jagaran Nepal, working for Human Rights, Peace and good governance specially with women and children issues. The major program of Jagaran Nepal is capacity building and advocacy program for women involved in politics for governance. She is also Central Secretary General of the NGO Federation of Nepal(NFN) and Women and Inclusion Department Chief.

Lily Thapa is the Founder of Women for Human Rights, which helps to bring widows, many of whom are young wives of casualties in Nepal's eleven-year insurgency, out of isolation and dependency in their husbands' homes and connects them with each other in groups that are building their economic and political strength throughout Nepal.

Nigeria

Babatunde Ahonsi is a senior program officer for reproductive health at the West Africa office of the Ford Foundation in Nigeria.

Pakistan

Maryam Bibi is founder and Chief Executive of Khwendo Kor, which focuses on the development of women, children, and strong families in the remote areas of the Northwest Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.

Sadiqa Salahuddin is Executive Director of the Indus Resource Centre, building the capacity of grassroots organizations in Pakistan and implementing a rights-based agenda around service delivery for essential basic needs.

Palestine

Marwan Awartani is Secretary-General of the Universal Education Foundation (UEF), an advocacy organization that promotes the holistic development of children as a responsibility of society as a whole.

Nora Murad is a writer and activist living in Palestine. She was founding executive director of the Dalia Association, a community foundation founded by members of the Palestinian community from the West Bank, including Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Israel, and the Diaspora.

Paraguay

Martín Burt is founding CEO and Chairman of Fundación Paraguaya, a social enterprise that promotes urban and rural entrepreneurship in Paraguay.

Philippines

Raul Socrates “Soc” C. Banzuela’s life mission is to contribute meaningfully to the growth and development of a critical mass of empowered and sustainable communities in the Philippines. He serves as the National Coordinator of Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA), a national confederation of small farmers, fishers, and rural women federations committed to agrarian reform and rural development.

Roberto Calingo is Executive Director of Team Energy Foundation, the corporate-citizenship branch of the largest energy provider in the Philippines.

Marissa Camacho-Reyes is Executive Director of Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS), the global network of grantmaker associations and organizations that promotes and supports philanthropy.

Maria Easterluna Santos Canoy is an experienced NGO manager for the last 14 years. She leads her team in the Kitanglad Integrated NGOs (KIN), a nonprofit organization based Malaybalay City, Bukidnon. KIN is made up of dedicated, passionate and experienced advocates for the environment and is a recognized partner that represents the interests and aspirations of the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) of Mindanao.

Marilou (Malu) Erni is Executive Director of the Petron Foundation and the chairperson of the League of Corporate Foundations in the Philippines.

Eugenio (Eugene) Gonzales is an independent consultant providing strategic planning, development, and management services to international NGOs, major donors, and private companies.

Sandra Libunao is an independent consultant with experience in designing training curricula, leading training sessions, and preparing and consolidating participant evaluations.

Sixto (Sixdon) Macasaet is Executive Director of the Caucus of Development NGO Networks in the Philippines, which has over 2,000 affiliated civil society organizations nationwide.

Felicitas (Fely) Rixhon is the Executive Director of the Philippine Center for Population and Development.

Felicidad (Fely) Soledad is the Executive Director of the Philippine Council for NGO Certification, a nonprofit corporation authorized by the Philippine government to certify NGOs for donee-institution status.

Julio Tan is Executive Director of the Foundation for the Philippine Environment in Quezón City.

Aurora (Rory) Tolentino is the former Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, the premier source of information on philanthropy in the region.

Puerto Rico

Nelson Colón is President of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, the first community foundation created in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Russia

Vadim Samorodov is Program Manager of the Global Fund for Community Foundations, a recently established program of the Worldwide Initiative for Grantmaker Support (WINGS).

South Africa

Achmat Dangor is CEO of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg and a widely-published author of five books.

Anne Emmett works as an independent consultant affiliated with the Ackerman/Pick 'n Pay Foundation, and was formerly Executive Director of the Equal Opportunity Foundation in South Africa.

Beulah Fredericks is Director of the Community Development Foundation-Western Cape, an organization that strengthens relationships and builds partnerships within communities.

Neville Gabriel is the founding Executive Director of the Southern Africa Trust, an independent regional agency that supports deeper and wider policy engagement between governments and non-state actors to overcome poverty.

Christa Kuljian currently an independent development consultant and writer in Johannesburg, opened and led the Mott Foundation’s program in South Africa.

Ann Lamont is Director of Convene Venture Philanthropy in South Africa, which focuses on leadership development and systemic change in Africa.

Teboho Mahuma is CEO for the Impala Bafokeng Trust in South Africa, which aims to contribute to social and economic development in the North-West Province.

Joy Mills-Hackmann is currently the Foundation Director for Kearsney College in Johannesburg, and was formerly the development manager for the South African Sugar Association.

Katharine Miszewski is an independment consultant specializing in corporate social investment in South Africa.

Kgotso Schoeman is a well-known community-development activist in South Africa, and is CEO of the Kagiso Trust.

Ingrid Srinath is the Secretary-General of CIVICUS, an international alliance of civic-action organizations.

Afsaneh Tabrizi is Chief Operating Officer of Shisaka Development Management Services in Johannesburg.

Brian Whittaker created the Vumelana Advisory Fund to structure partnerships between local communities and commercial investors.

South Korea

Won Soon Park is Executive Director of the Beautiful Foundation in South Korea, and a winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.

Taiwan

Hui-Jung Chi is Chief Executive Officer of The Garden of Hope Foundation in Taiwan and has launched the first anti-child-prostitution social movement in the country.

Tanzania

Olive Damian Luena is CEO of the Tanzania Gatsby Trust, which focuses on mobilizing and developing the informal sector.

Janet Mbene is founder and Director of SIA Limited, a private firm promoting poverty reduction through small and medium enterprises.

John Ulanga is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Civil Society, a Tanzanian organization that makes grants to support multi-sector efforts to fight poverty.

Thailand

Benjamas Siripatra is Director of the Local Development Foundation in Thailand, enhancing the effectiveness of Thai nongovernmental organizations and community-development programs for the poor.

Sukich Udindu is the vice president of Corporate Social Responsibility at the Minor Group, one of the largest food, hospitality, and lifestyle businesses in Southeast Asia.

Turkey

Ayla Göksel is CEO of the Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV) and Hüsnü Özyeğin Foundation, two pioneering non-profit organizations in Turkey working in the areas of education, women's empowerment, and rural development.

Uganda

Luther Bois Anukur is the Executive Director of Panos Eastern Africa, a regional information and communication for development agency whose vision is 'an informed, empowered society with improved quality of life, living in peace and harmony' in the East and Great horn of Africa.

Rehmah Kasule is Founder of CEDA International specializing in mentoring, leadership and social entrepreneurship. With the vision of “creating a new generation of women leaders” she empowers girls and women to become economically independent and socially responsible. She runs special income generating programs for women, youth, people living with HIV/AID and rural communities.

Chebet Maikut is Vice-President of the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation and a senior advisor at the Uganda National Farmers Federation.

United Kingdom

David Bonbright is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone, an initiative that seeks to influence development practice through a model of -civilsociety accountability.

Steven Burkeman currently an independent consultant, writer, and lecturer, was formerly the Secretary of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust in the United Kingdom.

Caroline Hartnell is Editor of Alliance, a quarterly magazine that focuses on philanthropy and social investment worldwide.

Gaynor Humphreys is Executive Director of London Funders, a membership organization working with funders and investors that support London’s voluntary and community organizations.

Avila Kilmurray is Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, a grant-making organisation that supports community action and influences social-justice policies.

United States

Emmett Carson is President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation,and has been named by the Nonprofit Times as one of the fifty most influential nonprofit leaders in the United States.

John Davies as President of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, was at the forefront of the Hurricane Katrina emergency relief efforts in Louisiana.

Gilda Haas is Executive Director of Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, a popular education organization dedicated to building economic power for working-class people in Los Angeles.

Etha Henry is founder and President of the EJH Alliance, providing consulting services in organizational development.

Peter Hero is a post-graduate-level lecturer and an independent consultant, and formerly led the Community Foundation Silicon Valley for seventeen years.

Paula Johnson is a Senior Fellow of The Philanthropic Initiative and a Research Fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University, leading efforts to understand, strengthen, and support global philanthropy and its impact on global development.

Joseph (Joe) Lumarda is currently with the Capital Guardian Group, and was formerly the executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the California Community Foundation.

Joyce Malombe is Program Officer for Education at ELMA Philanthropies. Formerly, she was a program officer at the Ford Foundation’s International Fellowships Program.

Juraj Mesik is Senior Community Foundation Specialist in the Social Development Department at the World Bank.

Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a global nonprofit venture fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 per day.

Carla Roberts is Vice-President of Affiliates for the Arizona Community Foundation, bringing together donors, nonprofits, beneficiaries, foundation staff, and professional advisors.

Shannon St. John is a director in the Global Networks unit of the Synergos Institute, and was founder and former Executive Director of the Triangle Community Foundation in North Carolina.

Zimbabwe

Tomaida Banda is the Executive Director of Child Protection Society, an organization that works with vulnerable children and their families in Zimbabwe.

Emmah Gweshe is Director of the Child Rights and Development Organisation (CRADO), a private voluntary organization that works to promote and protect the rights of children in Zimbabwe..

Inviolatta Moyo is founder of the Uluntu Foundation and previously served as executive director of the Community Foundation for the Western Region of Zimbabwe, the second community foundation to be created in sub-Saharan Africa.