TANACOPEHAGEN - Key Persons
Anders Kragh Bingen has more than 10 years of experience working on international projects. His main areas of expertise are within good governance, anti-corruption, public procurement and capacity development.
Mr. Bingen has led and taken part in a number of evaluation and monitoring assignments as well as legal and institutional assessments, e.g. in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia. He has led a various public procurement assessments in countries such as South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, and Bangladesh, primarily for the World Bank. He has worked extensively for the European Commission on evaluations and larger implementation projects, e.g. in the field of anti-corruption.
Mr. Bingen is also a highly skilled trainer and facilitator and has been responsible for managing and conducting training in a range of topics such as public sector leadership, financial management & good governance and results-based management for public and private sector counterparts from a number of countries all over the world.
Anders Kragh Bingen has more than 10 years of experience working on international projects … read more
Job Titles:
- Business Development Officer
Charles Kisame is a Business Development Officer based at Tana Nairobi office. He provides research, project management and business development backstopping support to the Tana's Business Development team. Charles holds a Master's degree in Project Planning and Management and, a B.A. International Studies (security studies major) both from the University of Nairobi. He has policy and programme experience within the area of peace, security and development. Specifically, he is interested in design, monitoring and evaluation of development interventions that promote peaceful and inclusive societies.
Charles Kisame is a Business Development Officer based at Tana Nairobi office… read more
Charlotte Bonnet is a consultant experienced in forced displacement, refugee rights, governance and accountability. She holds a Master's Degree in Global Development from the University of Copenhagen and has conducted fieldwork in Somalia, Tanzania and Denmark.
She joined Tana in 2016 and has supported Tana it its work on several evaluation and formulations assignments in East Africa. Charlotte is a French/Danish national, and is fluent in Danish, English and French, and proficient in Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Business Development Officer
- Business Development Officer in
Emil Skjødt is a Business Development Officer in Tana Copenhagen. Holding a Master's degree in Agricultural Development, Emil has strong competencies in the field of sustainable development of forests, soil management and food production, primarily in cooperation with indigenous people in developing countries. Through his Bachelor in Natural Resources and Environmental Science, he has also gained knowledge about natural resource management in Europe with a focus on environmental science. He has an interdisciplinary profile, combining both natural and social science.
In Tana, Emil is primarily responsible for tender acquisitions and coordination of framework contracts. He is responsible for ensuring the full compliance of expressions of interest and project proposals with the requirements of clients. Additionally, his responsibilities include general office administration and communication with partners, clients and donors.
Emil Skjødt has strong competencies in the field of sustainable development of forests, soil management and food production … read more
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Partner
- Senior Consultant
Erik Bryld is senior consultant, partner and managing director at Tana Copenhagen. He has more than a decade of solid experience working with governance, aid effectiveness and conflict mitigation and prevention in Africa and Asia. He has extensive experience as team leader in numerous formulations, reviews and evaluation missions.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Partner
- Senior Consultant
Finn Skadkaer Pedersen is senior consultant, partner and founder of Skadkaer Consult now Tana. His more than 30 years of experience has been gained through employment by a variety of actors in the development field, including the UN, NGOs, the EU-Commission, and not least the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he had a ten years career. He has held several senior positions including at Danish embassies.
Finn Skadkaer Pedersen is senior consultant, partner and founder of Skadkaer Consult now Tana. His more than 30 years of experience has been gained through … read more
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant, Kenya Office
Grace Muchunu is an international development professional with 6 years' experience supporting research, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development aid programmes in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, South Sudan). She has conducted gender studies covering natural resource management related to agriculture and land management as well as provided project management support to an undergoing study on the livestock economy in South Sudan. Over time, she has gained an increased knowledge base of fragility and vulnerability surrounding marginalized populations in fragile settings, accumulating skills in conducting peace and conflict assessments as well as political economy analysis. Grace has significant first-hand programming experience in prevention and response to Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), youth education in Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), and Child Protection. Her technical research skills include conducting key informant interviews and focus group discussions.
Grace Muchunu is an international development professional with 6 years' experience supporting… read more
Job Titles:
- Scientist
- Senior Consultant
Julian Brett is a political scientist specialising in peace and security, governance, human rights and aid effectiveness in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. … read more
Julian Brett is a political scientist specialising in peace and security, governance, human rights and aid effectiveness in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. He has undertaken numerous evaluations, reviews, analyses and formulation assignments, often as team leader, and involving international and regional organisations, NGOs and civil society.
Julian has specialist knowledge of peace and security, including fragile and post-conflict situations, and has also worked on wider governance, human rights (esp. human trafficking) and humanitarian issues. He has over twelve years' experience as a consultant in these fields and draws also from fourteen years as a defence official for the UK Government, during which he worked extensively on Security Sector Governance (SSG) in Africa and Eastern Europe. Julian spent three years as a technical and policy adviser embedded within the Namibian MoD following Namibia's independence and four years on loan to the Danish MoD where he worked on defence transition in Eastern Europe. He has previously worked as a senior consultant for COWI A/S in Denmark and as a researcher for the Danish Institute for International Affairs (DUPI, now DIIS).
Julian's strong experience in using evaluation techniques, results based management, and participatory approaches to data collection and analysis provide a solid basis for his consultancy. He has been closely involved with the design and operation of donor co-ordination mechanisms and stakeholder consultation in relation to improving the effectiveness of development aid. He has also undertaken institutional capacity building and quality assurance, including policy and financial coherence. He has extensive experience in working with international and regional organisations, NGOs and civil society.
As a consultant, Julian has participated in over 25 evaluations and reviews as well as numerous appraisals and policy analyses as well as programme identification and formulation, often as team leader. The majority of these assignments have been within the area of peace and security in Africa and South East Asia. Recent evaluations include the Border Management Staff College in Tajikistan (for OSCE), Peace Building in Nepal (for Rockwool Foundation), Mine Action, the Collaborative for Development Action ("Do No Harm"), South Africa-based "think tanks" (all for Sida).
A common element has been his support to the African regional organisations (AU, ECOWAS, IGAD, SADC etc.) where he has supported Danida's flagship Africa Programme for Peace since its inception in 2004. Julian continues to work closely with the African organisations, in particular the African Union where he has been engaged in strengthening the Peace and Security Department and roll-out of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA).
Julian also regularly undertakes analysis and studies on peace and security issues. Examples include the Danish Counter-radicalisation inititatives, the role of Somalia diaspora in stabilisation in Somalia, civil-military cooperation, counter terrorism and development, and political risk. In addition to the three phases of the Danish Africa Programme for Peace that he designed for Danida, he has formulated multi-year programmes in Southern Africa, West Africa, Eastern Europe, and Nepal.
Léonie Borel is a consultant at Tana Copenhagen, with experience in democracy and governance, humanitarian sector, refugee/asylum-seekers rights, and livelihoods development. She is strong in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. She is able to work with MaxQDA, Nvivo, Excel, Tableau, STATA, R and ArcGIS.
She has worked on more than 11 assignments for Sida, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the World Food Programme and Kvinna till Kvinna. She has supported large evaluations such as the Country Strategic Programme Evaluation of Pakistan, the Evaluability of Sida's Approaches to Democratization in Different Context and the Evaluation of Folke Bernadotte Academy by providing analysis on large data sets and producing data visualisation to be implemented on to reports, or through qualitative desk-research and assistance in report writing. Furthermore, she has also assisted numerous remote data collection including conducting multi-lingual online survey from survey design phase to data analysis and data visualisation. Léonie has also assisted in the coordination of capacity building courses with the Danish Fellowship Centre which involved participants from around the globe.
Lastly, she conducted field work in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nepal and Denmark. Léonie is a Canadian & French national and is fluent in English and French. She holds a master's degree in Global Development from the University of Copenhagen.
Léonie Borel is a consultant at Tana Copenhagen, with experience in democracy and governance, humanitarian sector, refugee / asylum-seekers rights, and livelihoods development … read more
Job Titles:
- Business Development
- Business Development and Project Finance & Administrator
- Yangreski Holds a Master 's Degree in International Development and Management from Lund University
Maury Issak Yangreski holds a Master's Degree in International Development and Management from Lund University, Sweden. She has extensive experience working with international organisations, NGOs as well as private sector in different countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Sweden and Denmark. She offers experience in project management with international clients such as DFID, Danida, Sida, etc; tendering process including talent acquisition; project finance management; and research. Maury is an Indonesian national living in Copenhagen and has been with Tana since March 2019.
Mette Svendsen, Business Manager, is responsible for ensuring that the environmental policy is implemented. However, all employees have a responsibility in their area to ensure that the aims and objectives of the policy are met.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Consultant With Experience Working
Nadia Masri-Pedersen is a multi-lingual consultant with experience working with civil society, capacity building/coaching, human rights and youth participation in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. She holds a Master Degree in Business and Development Studies from Copenhagen Business School. Nadia also studied both at the Instituto Técnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City as well as the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Through various assignments, Ms Masri-Pedersen has gained experience working with various evaluation methodologies, programme formulations, studies/mappings and trainings. Nadia has been part of conducting large complex evaluations and her evaluation experience has mainly been concentrated around development engagements in the MENA region as well as larger global evaluations. In total, she has conducted more than 20 reviews and evaluations.
She has been in charge of managing training programmes using a rights-based approach and carrying out training activities promoting human rights of young men and women for a variety of CSOs working with civic engagement and social change in the Middle East (Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt), Africa and in Denmark. During the past six years, Nadia has planned, facilitated and conducted more than 30 courses and workshops in 8 different countries.
Ms Masri-Pedersen offers a broad experience from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Africa, India and Latin America, where she has built up proven understanding of developmental contexts of different societies and fragile states.
Nadia is a Danish citizen, with Palestinian origin. She offers excellent communication skills in Arabic and the ability to engage in various sensitive cultural and political settings. She is fluent in Danish, Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Ms Masri-Pedersen is a multi-lingual consultant with experience working with civil society, capacity building/coaching, human rights and youth participation in the … read more
Job Titles:
- Business Development Manager
Rasmus Pedersen has a BA in history from the University of Copenhagen. Rasmus joined Tana in March 2014.
Rasmus leads the small business development and expansion team at Tana.
He has been with Tana since 2014 and been instrumental in Tana winning assignments with a number of clients such as DFID, Sida, Norad, Danish MFA/Danida, UN and several NGOs and private sector partners.
Rasmus has built a strong and large network of consultants based both in Europe and Asia and Africa and is known for his ability to ensure composition of teams with the ability to deliver timely and quality products.
He has lived in several African countries and visited many more as well as countries in Asia and Latin America.
Rasmus Pedersen has a BA in history from the University of Copenhagen. Rasmus joined Tana in March 2014 where he …. read more
Sophie Bromand is a consultant, based in Nairobi with experience in project management, community engagement and social justice. She has years of experience in facilitating cross-cultural learning programmes and exchange visits where dialogue and communication are in focus, and she has worked in DFC's Capacity Development team. Through her work and research, she has zoomed in on women's rights and gender equality, with a focus on pluralistic legal systems and inheritance laws.
With more than 20 years of experience Tina Bredsgaard is an adept Business Manager. She has worked for large and small corporations, where she has gained experience with accounting, auditing, office administration, code of conduct and business integrity.