Caitlin Bentley
Most recently, Caitlin has been working as a knowledge officer and social media strategist at a Canadian international cooperation agency. In her career, she has worked with over 20 civil society organizations in several African countries on a range of technology capacity building projects, and specializes in online collaboration research and technology project implementations in developing countries. Caitlin completed a Master in Educational Technology last year, focusing on social computing topics and practical applications of online collaboration tools and strategies.
Louise Daniel
Louise is an independent research communicator with over 15 years experience in this field at the UK Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) in Rome.
Chris Mowles
Chris's professional background is in management, consultancy and international development He worked for a number of years in the Middle East for Oxfam GB. This included living in southern Lebanon during the Israeli occupation, and thereafter managing development programmes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Yemen, Egypt and Western Sahara. Subsequently, his work experience has been in the management of not-for-profit and public sector organizations, where he was both a middle and senior manager developing health and social care programmes. Towards the end of his career in the public sector he was employed as a business systems analyst, interfacing between health and social work practitioners and computer programmers.
For the last fifteen years he offered research, evaluation and organizational development services to clients including the British government in China, the British Council in the Maldives and the UK, the UN in Egypt and the Occupied Territories, the Dutch government for an international knowledge management programme, and international NGOs throughout Africa and Asia.
He is now director of the innovative Master and Doctoral program in complexity, leadership and organizational change at the Business School of the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, where he himself graduated. He also teaches on the MA in leadership and complexity at Hertfordshire. His consultancy work continues alongside his academic research and teaching. He has undertaken research consultancies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada and has been a guest lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University, the Zurich School of Applied Sciences, Switzerland (ZHAW) and the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).
Chris has written extensively on questions of management, leadership and complex social processes. Details of his work can be found on www.reflexivepractice.wordpress.com
Pier Andrea Pirani
Pier has been working in information, knowledge sharing and communications for development since 2004 and is co-director of Euforic Services Ltd. As a skilled trainer and facilitator, Pier started working and experimenting with web 2.0, social media and collaborative tools in 2005. Since then, Pier been been responsible for designing and facilitating awareness and training sessions and for supporting teams and individuals in the implementation of new web tools into their daily work. He provides advisory services on the use of web 2.0 for knowledge sharing and collaboration within and among organisations. He has also been responsible for social reporting activities at several international meetings and events, using social media to communicate and publish multimedia content.
Nicola Reade-Soh
Nicola is a freelance consultant with six years of experience in the field of evaluation & training in development cooperation. Her special interest lies in impact evaluation and results based monitoring. During her time working at the Center for Evaluation she acquired solid practical and theoretical experience in conducting impact evaluations using quantitative and qualitative data collection methods and applying rigorous evaluation designs. She has worked in various sectors such as education, vocational training, water, health, natural resources, energy, forestry and in various countries such as China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Thailand, Uganda, USA, Vietnam, Zambia.
Theresia Twickler
Theresia is a freelance consultant with twenty years of experience in the field of acquiring and implementing EU funds for research (amongst others in the development cooperation). She has acquired experience in all facets of EU funding (legal financial and managerial). Her special interest lies in the overall management of acquiring funding and controlling it in a professional way, not only from the perspective of a project consortium, but also from an institutional point of view. When a project is successfully implemented and managed by a consortium with efficient support from their institutions, it will generate a professional track record and image towards the funding organization, which in itself generates new, future successes.
