AMSTERDAM TROPEN HOTEL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Knowledge Management Expert
- Staff
Amie is a global health researcher, infectious diseases medical doctor, and public health specialist, with 10 years of experience in low and middle income countries. She worked as a medical doctor in the Senegalese Armed Forces and for two years in the United Nations in Mali and Cote d'Ivoire.
As an advisor in the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) team, Amie works as a knowledge management expert in the Share-Net project and leads the Activation grants of Share-Net International. She was also involved in the RESPECT and Ensemble projects. Furthermore, she is a lecturer in KIT's French course on SRHR, where she teaches maternal and neonatal health, facilitates the World Champion Game and contributes to the student's assessment.
She is known for her dedication to improving health and reducing health inequality in all people worldwide, establishing and maintaining excellent communication and relationships, and having excellent research skills with an out-of-box thinking and inclusive approach.
Amie holds a Global Health master's degree from the Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a medical degree from Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Senior Advisor
- Staff
Ana Victoria Portocarrero is a passionate feminist researcher, educator and activist focussed on economic and environmental justice, gender, sexuality and development, climate change and food sovereignty. She has more than 15 years' experience working with grassroots organizations, diverse social movements, state institutions, (I)NGOs, and academia on the unveiling, strengthening and creation of alternative feminist economies based on an ethics of care for humans and nature.
She holds a degree in Economics and a masters in Development Studies. She is currently pursuing a PhD on Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, and Peasant Feminism, focussing on the Central American region, particularly Nicaragua.
Ana Victoria has extensive experience on feminist research with emphasis on discourse analysis methodologies, gender integration in public and private educational institutions, coordination and evaluation of projects, programs and policies, and on the design, implementation and teaching of educational programs.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Advisor in the Sustainable Economic Development
- Staff
Anamika Amani is an advisor in the Sustainable Economic Development and Gender Unit in KIT. She has a Masters in Rural Development Sociology, with a specialisation in Gender studies, from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands.
Over the past 15 years Anamika has advised, trained and managed projects for international and local development partners on the ‘why' and ‘how' of using a gender perspective in their work to make it more effective, efficient, sustainable and fair. During this time she lived and worked in India, Bangladesh, Peru, Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
In her work she has collaborated with diverse development actors including the CGIAR, UN Environment, EU-DEVCO, Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Gender and Water Alliance and Oxfam. Anamika's practical experience covers small-scale fisheries and coastal ecosystem management, small-holder agriculture and food security, climate change, WASH+ services, micro-credit/entrepreneurship and rights advocacy for gender-just and sustainable development.
Job Titles:
- Treasurer / Board Member Cultural Foundation of the City of Leiden / Board Member and Chair of the Investment Committee of the Jewish Humanitarian Fund
Job Titles:
- Member of the Ethical Review Board of the Royal Tropical Institute
- Senior Health Advisor, Trainer and Project Leader
- Staff
- Team Leader Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Anke van der Kwaak is a senior health advisor, trainer and project leader and PhD candidate at KIT. She trains and teaches in sexual and reproductive health rights and quality of care and is the coordinator of the health system research module.
Anke leads a number of research and advisory projects in the field of SRHR. Before joining KIT, she worked for ten years as a university lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. At the VU she was a researcher and trainer in CARAM (Co-ordination Action Research on AIDS and Mobility) ASIA, a programme of research, migration and AIDS in ten Asian countries.
Anke is a strong team player, a good communicator and strategic networker. She operates both in NGO and academic circles, and is focused on linking people, both in North-South and South-South networks. Most of her work focuses on capacity-strengthening in mixed-methods research and on the evaluation and translation of findings into knowledge products to be used for informing policy and programmes.
Anke is a member of the Ethical Review Board of the Royal Tropical Institute and the Board of Studies of the Master in Internal Public Health and has authored numerous academic publications.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Social Scientist
- Staff
Anna Laven is a social scientist with 15 years of experience in research and advisory services in sustainable development. Her expertise includes sustainable cocoa, inclusive development, gender and value chains and knowledge management.
Job Titles:
- Junior Advisor
- Junior Advisor in the Gender Team at KIT
- Staff
Anne Karam is a junior advisor in the Gender Team at KIT. She holds a Research M.Sc, cum laude, in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam.
Anne is passionate about climate change, environmental justice, and gendered dimensions of sustainability. She is excited to contribute to the growing work at the nexus of gender and climate change at KIT. She has research experience with qualitative methods, on the topics of the energy transition and environmental justice, and agri-food systems.
Anne started her career at KIT in 2021 with the Women's Rights and Mining Initiative, co-founded by KIT and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 2022, as an advisor, she has honed her experience as a facilitator and coordinator for the ever-expanding Catalysts of Gender Transformative Change programme with Nespresso, for which she has worked in and with colleagues in Ethiopia, DRC, Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia and Puerto Rico. She is proficient in research, literature reviews and writing skills, and has applied these through her contributions to projects with ILRI, CGIAR and FAO.
Annemiek Richters, Hermen Ormel and Anke van der Kwaak, Multi-country programme on social science research redesigned: The case for a Great Lakes Applied Research Centre. In:Anke van der Kwaak, Hermen Ormel and Annemiek Richters, Capacity Builidng for Knowledge Generation: Experiences in the context of health and development, Amsterdam, KIT Publishers, 2012, pp.125-138
Job Titles:
- Secretary / CEO ASML Foundation
Dr. Abeje Berhanu, Dereje Tesema, Belayneh Worku, Almaz Mekonnen, Negest Abebaw, Bereket Andargatchew, Nestanet Fekede, Kalkidan Berhanu , Anke van der Kwaak , Lisa Juanola , Eefje Smet , Maria Codina
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- Master 's Programme Coordinator
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- Education Coordinator and Head of MIH Programme
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- Operational Research Manager - Health Pooled Fund
Harriet Birungi, Francis Obare, Anke van der Kwaak and Jane Harriet Namwebya, Maternal Health Care Utilization Among HIV-Positive Female Adolescents in Kenya,International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Volume 37, Number 3, September 2011, pp.143-149
Job Titles:
- Lisanne Gerstel / Advisor and Head of of MPH Programme
Job Titles:
- Head of Sustainable Economic Development & Gender
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- Chairman / Board Member F.S. Tijmstra Foundation