GAIN - Key Persons
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- Country Director, Indonesia
- Indonesia in 2014 As a Senior Program Manager
Agnes joined GAIN Indonesia in 2014 as a Senior Program Manager for the Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) Programme. Graduated as a medical doctor, she worked in several clinics and hospital before moving to the public health and humanitarian programme. In the last 17 years, she led the design and implementation of various programs both for development and emergency responses.
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- HEAD of OFFICE
- Head of Office of GAIN Geneva
Andoni Santamaria Kampfner is Head of Office of GAIN's office in Geneva, overseeing the management of the office including guidelines and procedures, day-to-day operations, and local stakeholder engagement. Andoni further manages a portfolio of projects under the Knowledge Leadership team, in close collaboration with technical staff, external partners and local stakeholders. He also oversees GAIN's output quality control mechanism and its dissemination tracking system.
Andoni holds an MA in International Security from Sciences Po (I.E.P. Paris) and has extensive experience in programme and project management, monitoring and reporting in the development field. He is a fluent speaker of English, Spanish French and Basque, and practices Egyptian Arabic and Italian in his free time.
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- Professor, European University Institute, Former EU Development Commissioner
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- Director of PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk, Global Co - Chair of Scaling Up Nutrition ( SUN ) Business Advisory Group
Mr Salim Axton has been the Head of Dairy Division at PT Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur Tbk since September 2, 2009 and has been its Head of Corporate Marketing since February 1, 2017.
Mr Axton serves as the Head of Beverages Division at PT Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur Tbk. He served as an Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Indofood. He joined Indofood in 2004.
He served as Marketing Manager of PT Indofood Fritolay Makmur from 2004 to 2006. He served as an Assistant to Chief Executive Officer of PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk from 2007 to 2009. He began his career with Credit Suisse Singapore in the Investment Banking Division. He has been the President Commissioner of PT Tirta Sukses Perkasa since 2013. He has been Vice President Director I of PT Indolakto since 2013.
He also serves as Co-chair of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Business Network Advisory Group. He has been a Commissioner of PT Tirta Makmur Perkasa since 2013. Mr. Axton has been Commissioner of Lonsum since 2009. He has been a Director of PT Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur Tbk and PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk since September 2, 2009. He has been a Non Executive Director of PT Indolakto since 2009 and Pacsari Pte Ltd since 2007.
He has been a Commissioner at PT Nestlé Indofood Citarasa Indonesia (NICI) since April 2010, PT Salim Ivomas Pratama since 2007 and PT Perusahaan Perkebunan London Sumatra Indonesia Tbk since 2009. Mr. Axton has been a Non-Executive Director of Gallant Venture Ltd since April 30, 2014. He serves as a Director of PT Indofood Asahi Sukses Beverage. He has been a Non Executive Director at Indofood Agri Resources Ltd. since October 2007 and served as its Director since January 23, 2007. In 2014, he participated in training programs, workshops and seminars including Indonesia Financial Services Authority Draft Regulations Synopsis 2014 on December 5, 2014.
Mr. Axton holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, USA in 2002.
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- Founder & Executive Director - African Women Agribusiness Network Afrika ( AWAN - AFRIKA )
Mrs. Gakuba is an Internationally recognised Food Security and Nutrition expert and a Social Entrepreneur. She retired from a successful UN career to embark on promoting Women Inclusion and Financial Inclusion through Regenerative and Sustainable Agriculture. She has now built the largest network of women in Agribusiness across Africa.
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- Senior Coordinator, Smallholder and Agri - SME Finance and Investment Network ( SAFIN )
Bettina Prato has been leading the Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN) - a global alliance of around 50 institutions working in agri-SME finance, headquartered at IFAD, Rome - for the past four years. Prior to that, she was team leader for global policy engagement team at IFAD, covering high profile international forums including the G20, G7, the Financing for Development Forum under ECOSOC, the High Level Political Forum on the 2030 Agenda, and the Committee on World Food Security.
Her professional experience includes academia, the United Nations system, NGOs and a think tank. She has written and spoken publicly in many international forums on issues related to food security and nutrition, gender equality and women's empowerment, trauma and political identity, and agri-food finance.
An Italian national, she holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley and degrees in International Affairs and in Oriental Languages from the George Washington University and from the University of Venice, respectively. She has recently been closely involved in the UN Food Systems Summit process as Vice-Chair for Gender and Women of the Food Systems Champions' Network.
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- HEAD of OFFICE
- Head of the Development Office
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- Director of Country Programmes
Charl joined GAIN as Director of Country Programmes following five years as Associate Director, including one year as Interim Director of Confederation Development at Oxfam International. Charl has extensive strategic leadership experience in business planning and development, strategy development, as well as transformation and change management across country offices in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. Charl has led Oxfam's strategy to become more global through the growth and expansion of Oxfam members in the global South.
He started his career as an urban planner; thereafter he moved in global supply chain management in humanitarian programming. His past experiences also include supply chain transformation and managing the implementation of the Single Management Structure (SMS) programme in 60+ Oxfam countries.
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- Head of GAIN Nordic, Speaking at an Event
Cherrie Atilano is the Founding Farmer, CEO and President of AGREA Agricultural Systems International, Inc., a for-purpose and inclusive business, that is creating the first replicable one-island economy that is zero hunger, zero waste, and zero insufficiency, - through the ‘Ecology of Dignity' approach. AGREA aims to help eradicate poverty for farming and fishing families in order to alleviate the effects of climate change, and establish food security in the Philippines.
Cherrie started teaching farmers at the age of 12, has 22 years of vast experience in Sustainable Food Systems. She graduated top of her class - Magna Cum Laude at the Visayas State University, with a BS in Agriculture, Major in Horticulture specializing on tissue culture.
Cherrie is a recipient of The Outstanding Women in Nation's Service Award in 2016, Inspiring Filipina Entrepreneur in 2017, first Awardee of Women of the Future Social Entrepreneur in SouthEast Asia, and The Outstanding Men and Women of the Philippines 2018. Cherrie also led AGREA in winning the UN Global Compact the Global Responsible Business Award 2017 for Agriculture Excellence, and the 4th ASEAN Rural Poverty Eradication Leadership Awards in 2019. She is a High-Level Ambassador of the United Nations Scaling Up Nutrition, an Advisory Board member of the World Bank Solutions for Youth Employment, and 2020 class of the Young Global Leaders (YGL) - the World Economic Forum's foundation for remarkable leaders under 40.
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- Financial Systems and Reporting Manager
Danielle Nierenberg is a world-renowned researcher, speaker, and advocate, on all issues relating to our food system and agriculture. She is the President of Food Tank (foodtank.com), which she co-founded with Bernard Pollack, to build a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Danielle is the recipient of the 2020 Julia Child Award.
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- Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
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- Country Director
- Director
- Country Director, India
- Social Scientist
Dr Bhuvaneswari Balasubramanian, Country Director for India - is a social scientist by training with extensive experience of working with philanthropies and development consulting in driving excellence for generating evidence and implementing evidence based programmatic interventions in public health nutrition across India.
Dr Bhuvaneswari Balasubramanian is a social scientist by training with extensive experience of working with philanthropies and development consulting in driving excellence for generating evidence and implementing evidence based programmatic interventions in public health nutrition across India.
She started her career as an Assistant Professor in Psychology and transitioned to work with Deloitte's Public and Private Healthcare Consulting supporting the Ministry of Women and Child Development in the evaluation of the Integrated Child Development Services and strengthening convergence of nutrition programs at the state level. Prior to joining GAIN, she managed a pan-India fellowship in the roll out of Govt of India's National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyaan) supported by The India Nutrition Initiative of the Tata Trusts.
She is a soap maker and a fitness enthusiast with a love for lifting heavy things!
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- Co - Founder & CTO, Better Nature Ltd. ( UK ) Co - Founder, Indonesian Tempe Movement
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- Senior Research Scientist
- Senior Research Scientist and Lead, Nutrition and Food Systems Unit, African Population and Health Research Center ( APHRC )
Dr. Elizabeth Kimani-Murage is a Senior Research Scientist and Lead, Nutrition and Food Systems Unit at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC). She also leads the Zero Hunger Initiative at APHRC, whose mission is to promote freedom from hunger and the right to adequate food in Kenya and Africa, in line with the Sustainable Development Goal on Zero Hunger.
She is a Public Health nutrition Specialist with a longstanding research, public and policy engagement and advocacy experience on food and nutrition security issues in Kenya and Africa. She is also a human rights (particularly the right to food) defender and advocate. Her vision is to transform food systems in Kenya and Africa to be more nourishing, human rights-based, resilient and sustainable, to promote human and ecological health.
She was among Rockefeller Foundation's Top 10 visionaries under its 2050 Food Systems Vision Prize. Towards the actualization of her vision (under the Zero Hunger Initiative), she supports women and youth groups in low income areas in Kenya to enhance access to healthy food for themselves and their communities.
Elizabeth has contributed to several local and international technical/professional groups and boards. These include the International Expert Group for the Global Nutrition Report Series 2014-2017; Vitamin Angels Board of Directors; and the Advisory Expert Group for TMG Think Tank's Assessment and Communication of Climate Impacts of Food (CLIF) Project. She has actively contributed to national policies related to nutrition and child health in Kenya.
She holds a PhD in Public Health; a Masters of Public Health; and a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Health. She also (recently) holds a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in law, with a special interest in promotion of social justice and the right to food though advocacy.
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- Chief of the Economic Empowerment Section at UN Women
Dr. Jemimah Njuki is the Chief of the Economic Empowerment section at UN Women. She is a recognized leader on gender equality and women's empowerment, having directed global initiatives promoting women's economic empowerment. Jemimah previously worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) as the Director for Africa, where she worked with African governments and key stakeholders to develop evidence for transformative policy change.
She has spent the last two years leading the UN Food Systems Summit's Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Lever of Change and was instrumental in establishing the Coalition to Make Food Systems Work for Women and Girls. Additionally, she led the design and deployment of the Global Food 5050, an indicator and mechanism for gender responsibility for organizations engaged in global food systems.
She has led the gender equality work with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) including the design of the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GRoW), the Women in Agriculture programme at CARE USA, and the Poverty, Gender and Impact programme at the International Livestock Research Institute.
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- Member of the National Academy of Medicine
- Senior Professor - Researcher and Former General Director of the National Institute of Public Health
Dr. Juan Rivera is a senior Professor-Researcher and former General Director of the National Institute of Public Health.
Dr. Rivera is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Mexican Academy of Sciences, founding Director of the Center for Nutrition and Health Research at INSP, and member of the EAT-LANCET Commission on healthy diets for sustainable food systems.
He has authored over 560 hundred publications, he has made more than 750 presentations and conferences at national and international scientific events and his published works have been mentioned more than 48,573 times on different scientific media of national and international circulation and he studies the epidemiology of malnutrition in all its forms, with a view toward lasting solutions.
Dr. Rivera has been granted with the 2010 Hippocrates International Medical Research Award on Human Nutrition, the 2010Scopus Award in the Health Sciences category, the 2009 Kellogg International Nutrition Research Award, the 20th GlaxoSmithKline Foundation National Research Award, the 2003 Fred L. Soper Award from the Pan American Health Organization. In 2019, Dr. Rivera awarded the Carlos Slim Health Prize for his research career and the "Gerardo Varela" Public Health Award 2022
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- Director
- Director, Strategic Operations
Elizabeth is responsible for the corporate governance function at GAIN and leads the Human Resources (HR) and Information Technology (IT) teams. She works with colleagues to coordinate activities across GAIN's operations.
She joined GAIN in November 2017, following eight years as Director of Strategic Operations and Secretary to the Board at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Prior to that, she held senior roles in UK further and higher education, working nationally and institutionally. The latter included a decade leading the strategic planning and projects function at a UK University, as well as work on widening participation in higher education and leading an award-winning initiative in university/community engagement.
A very long time ago, she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford, a Master's degree in Education from the Open University and a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Warwick. At IDS, she led the professional functions across HR, Finance, IT and Facilities, supporting GBP 22 million turnover and 240 staff. Relevant projects there included a significant governance review and refresh; searches for the Director and Board Chair; work on pensions, incentives and rewards; financial sustainability; risk management; various restructures; and major collaborations.
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- Country Representative, Uganda
Enock has a Master's degree in Food and Nutritional Sciences from Makerere University, Uganda. He previously worked for GAIN in Kenya as a Project Manager and Senior Technical Specialist, Agriculture and Nutrition.
Before joining GAIN, he worked with Bioversity International (CGIAR) as both an Associate Expert and Associate Scientist. He worked with Africare International in Uganda, as a Community Nutrition and Sanitation Advisor.
He served with government as a Fisheries Officer for the delivery of extension services aimed at improving the nutritional and economic status of mainly rural communities through fish farming in Uganda.
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- Country Director
- Country Director, Pakistan
As Country Director, Farrah works with both government and business to maximise GAIN's impact in addressing the burden of nutritional deficiencies in Pakistan. She oversees the development and implementation of programmes and projects and makes sure that the operational and strategic plans of the organisation are met.
Farrah joined GAIN Pakistan as Country Director in March 2020.
She is trained in rural development and gender. She has worked extensively in the design and delivery of multisectoral humanitarian responses, food safety, health, nutrition, water and sanitation, girls education, disability inclusive development, community development and gender based violence projects in Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Philippines and Guinea.
She has around three decades of experience working in the development sector with national and international NGOs and UNDP; is well-versed in managing projects in a multi-sectoral environment, as well as leading international teams. Farrah joined GAIN from the Christoffel Blinden Mission Christian Blind Mission - CBM e.V. where she worked as Country Director on the disability inclusive development, violence against women and girls with disabilities, eye health system, and community based inclusive development.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of the GAIN Board of Directors
Felia Salim is active in the finance, governance, and sustainability sectors. She currently sits on the board of directors of the Indonesian Eximbank.
With more than 30 years in the financial sector, from 2004-2015, Ms Salim served PT Bank Negara Indonesia, one of Indonesia's largest state banks. As Vice President Director/Transformation Director, she was responsible for the comprehensive transformation of the bank. This meant having to align people, process, and technology resulting in a healthier bottom line based on segments which include the micro and SME. This endeavor covered Sustainability measures to be introduced into the enterprise-wide risk management framework.
She held two important positions: as the Deputy Chairperson of The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency, right after serving as the Head of the Secretariat for the Financial Sector Policy Committee addressing problems of the Asian Crisis in late 1990.
She has also been instrumental in developing several key organizations focused on democracy, and good governance/anti-corruption, such as the Partnership for Governance Reform of Indonesia, The Transparency International Indonesia Chapter, and the Tifa Foundation.
Her philanthropy and commitment to sustainability-climate change work have earned her seats in both national and international Advisory and Governing Boards such as et al: the AndGreen Fund, a Dutch-based Blended/Climate finance to focus work in Indonesia, Liberia, and Brazil; US based Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA) doing work in Asia and Latin and Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) covering South Africa, India, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia to catalyze and accelerate investments in green energy transitions and renewable energy solutions.
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- Country Director GAIN Benin ( Left ) Together With the Benin 's Ministry of Agriculture ( Left )
- Country Director, Benin
Françoise joined GAIN as of May 1st 2023 as Benin Country Director and brought with her over 20 years of strong national (Benin) and international experience in managing complex, multi-donor, multi -sectoral programmes and projects.
Françoise joined GAIN as of May 1st 2023 as Benin Country Director and brought with her over 20 years of strong national (Benin) and international experience in managing complex, multi-donor, multi -sectoral programs and projects.
She is especially adept in strategy development, MEL systems at regional level, with specialties in grants management, program coordination, budget management, training, facilitation, financial management and capacity building.
Françoise has demonstrated success in leading multi-country teams and coordinating various program implementers, having previously worked with IFDC and Peace Corps USA.
Françoise holds 2 master's degrees one in Project Management and Rural Development and another one in International Relations. She speaks more than 6 African languages in addition to French and English.
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- Senior Policy Advisor, Food and Nutrition Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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- Director
- Country Director, Mozambique
- Mozambique As Deputy Country Director
Gaspar Cuambe joined GAIN Mozambique as Deputy Country Director in August 2020 and is GAIN Mozambique's Country Director since January 2021. Gaspar brings along with him a wide experience of programmatic and operational management accumulated over 30 years in several public and private institutions and mostly in international NGOs in Mozambique and Angola.
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- Doctoral Researcher, Technological University Dublin and Founder, Sweetpot Yoghurt
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- Chairman of the GAIN Board of Directors, Speaking at the Summit
Jay Naidoo, Chairman of the GAIN Board of Directors, speaking at the Summit
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- Economic Development and Development Finance Expert
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- Global Leader Food Practice, WWF International
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- CEO and Chief Transformation Officer, Non - Executive Board Member, Social Entrepreneur, Inclusion & Diversity Advocate
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- Director
- Executive Director
- Appointed New Executive Director
- Executive Director, GAIN / Ex Officio
Lawrence Haddad appointed new Executive Director of GAIN.
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- Nutrition Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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- Professor Cornell Atkinson Scholar Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Department of Global Development
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- Secretary General and Chief Executive Officer, Welthungerhilfe
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- Director, Knowledge Leadership
- Director, Knowledge Leadership / HEAD of OFFICE
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- Country Director, Nigeria
Michael leads GAIN's work in Nigeria focused on transforming our food systems to make healthier and sustainable food choices more affordable, available and desirable including work to scale up business investments in nutritious food value chains, reduce postharvest losses, secure better diets for children, and progress food fortification at scale.
7. The members of the Board are not remunerated for their work. They are entitled to reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
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- Chairman
- Member of the Board
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- HEAD of OFFICE
- Head of GAIN Netherlands
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Director
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- Country Director, Tanzania
With 20+ years of work experience in the non-profit, corporate, and consulting sectors, Prisca Rwezahura has a comprehensive background in international development including social behaviour change programs and interventions.
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- Country Director, Bangladesh
Ruth joins GAIN from BRAC International where she was the Regional Director for Africa for 4 years. Over the years she played crucial roles in top leadership positions in various local and international organisations involved in development that include areas of child rights, welfare, and education, health, Water, Hygiene and Sanitation, Agriculture and food security, Youth empowerment, advocacy, and emergencies.
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- Director of Programme Services
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- Director, Healthier Lives, the Consumer Goods Forum
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- Director
- Director of Policy, Office of Executive Director
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Country Director
- Director
- Ethiopia Country Director