MARIE STOPES - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director, Niger
Abdoulaye Touré has worked in the humanitarian and development sectors since 1992 and joined MSI Reproductive Choices as Country Director in Niger in 2019.
His career includes eight years spent working in Democratic Republic of Congo on relief & development programmes, where he worked with CARE International and Women for Women International. In the past five years he has focused on programme design, implementation, leadership, management, and has a proven track record on Women empowerment programmes including reproductive health.
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director at Our
- Country Director, Ethiopia
Abebe serves as Country Director at our Marie Stopes Ethiopia programme. Before that he served several years as Country Director of our Zimbabwe programme, Population Services Zimbabwe. He has over 20 years of experience in community development and public healthcare programmes, including maternal and child health, family planning and reproductive health, malaria prevention, and HIV/AIDS programming.
His impressive career includes positions in US Peace Corps Ethiopia Office as Deputy Country Director, Action Aid Ethiopia as Programme Officer for community-based healthcare, and the Catholic Church Health Care Programme.
Abebe joined MSI Reproductive Choices in 2010, originally serving in our Ethiopia programme as Director of Communications, External Relations and Research, and Director of Programmes. He holds an MPH, an MBA in Health Care Management, a BSc, and an Advance Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing.
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- President, MSI United States, and Vice President, Global Partnerships and Philanthropy
Amanda has worked in the social impact and humanitarian aid sectors for over 25 years, and joined MSI from Friends of UNFPA, where she served as interim CEO. She has served a wide range of causes including homelessness, addiction, domestic violence, refugees and displacement, and reproductive health, and has been a leader within UN and INGO organisations.
Over the past 12 years, the focus of her work has been resource mobilisation and communications for the humanitarian sector, working at international NGOs and UN agencies such as UNHCR and at the International Rescue Committee, where she delivered sector leading growth.
At MSI, Amanda leads a new department that draws together the work of MSI US and our global Government, Multilateral, Private and Philanthropic Teams. She's responsible for expanding and diversifying MSI's fundraising efforts and donor sources globally: both working to meet our immediate funding needs as well as ensuring we deliver our ambitious MSI 2030 income goals.
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director for MSI 's Timor Leste
- Country Director, Timor Leste
Amelia Barreto is Country Director for MSI's Timor Leste programme. Her previous roles included MSI Timor Leste's Clinical Quality Manager, Director General for Quality Assurance at the Ministry of Health, and managing the Spotlight Initiatives programme for UNFPA.
Amelia earned a Master's in Health and International Development and has extensive experience in healthcare quality. She has also worked with civil society organisations to end violence against women and children with a focus on raising awareness in the community, as well as ensuring that the health system and other referral systems respond to survivors' needs.
Amelia is passionate about equity and equality. She showcases MSI's insights and practices to advocate for change at the national level.
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director of Marie Stopes Bolivia
- Country Director, Bolivia
Ana Cecilia is the Country Director of Marie Stopes Bolivia. She is a Bolivian national who spent close to 16 years studying and working in the United States before joining MSI Reproductive Choices. Her latest job was as the Vice President of Programme Operations at the Latin American Community Center in Delaware, working to advocate for and provide services to the Hispanic immigrant community.
Ana Cecilia has a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, a M.S. in Human Resources Development from McDaniel College in Maryland and over 12 years of experience working for NGO's, managing projects for vulnerable populations.
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- Global Chief Financial Officer
- Vice President
Andrew joined MSI Reproductive Choices in 2014 having spent the previous 11 years working as a finance director in the UK National Health Service. His remit covers finance, informatics, group IT, procurement and supply chain, legal services, and internal auditing.
Andrew has more than 25 years' experience in senior financial leadership positions, and has worked in a range of industries in the UK and internationally, including roles as Group Financial Controller of a FTSE 100 group and International CFO for Dell Financial Services in EMEA. He is also a UK chartered accountant having qualified with Price Waterhouse in London, where he worked for 13 years.
Andrew joined us inspired by our passion and dedication to our clients, and he's committed to helping ensure that MSI Reproductive Choices' financial and operational processes support the tremendous work done by our frontline staff every day.
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director, Papua New Guinea
- MSI Papua New Guinea 's Country Director
Angelyn Famudi has been MSI Papua New Guinea's Country Director since May 2022. She is a seasoned manager and marketing professional with 20 years of experience in sales and media. She serves on several boards and is an engaged community member and leader in Port Moresby.
Angelyn is incredibly passionate about MSI's mission and shares: "It is a privilege to be involved in service delivery to improve the health and quality of life for women, men, and their families, with quality sexual and reproductive health services."
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- Member of the Board
- Mexico As Country Director
- Regional Managing Director, Latin America
Before becoming the Regional Managing Director for Latin America, Araceli joined Marie Stopes Mexico as Country Director in 2015 with a background working in marketing and business management. Her experience spans the commercial and medical industries, where she has previously taken on roles for large organisations including Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser.
Prior to joining MSI Reproductive Choices, Araceli worked for Johnson and Johnson as Ethicon Business Director for Mexico, in charge of medical devices for general and laparoscopic surgery. She also worked for Novartis Pharmaceutical in charge of the contact lenses business for Mexico and Central America.
Araceli says her role with MSI Reproductive Choices is the perfect match for her, because she gets to use her "commercial background at the service of women in my country, providing the best service for them to have a safe choice."
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director, Marie Stopes Society Pakistan
In Pakistan, we work with the locally registered NGO Marie Stopes Society, headed by Asma Balal. Asma is a public health and development professional with over 20 years' experience in donor-funded programme design, implementation and management.
Asma began her career in the corporate sector specialising in commercial marketing and brand management; however it was during the field trips to rural communities that she witnessed the impact of poor access to contraception on women's health and quality of life. This inspired her to join Marie Stopes Society Pakistan as a volunteer and offer her skills and expertise to help market clinical services to clients.
Asma holds an MBA in marketing from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, and a Master's degree in international health from the Harvard School of Public Health, USA. Asma's commercial sector experience is helping drive Marie Stopes Society towards a sustainable future.
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- Country Director
- Member of the Board
- Country Director, South Africa
Blum was appointed Country Director in South Africa in early 2018. Blum qualified as a chartered accountant after studying at the University of Cape Town. He has extensive experience within the health sector. A very talented and experienced global senior executive, Blum has a proven track record of re-positioning and building healthcare businesses in South Africa.
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- Member of the Board
- Regional Director, Pacific Asia Team
Chris joined MSI Reproductive Choices after working in international development across a variety of sectors for the past 16 years.
Having previously lived and worked in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia, Chris wanted to continue focusing on a region he was familiar with, and which he appreciates for its amazing history, diversity and dynamism.
With skilled communication and persuasion abilities, Chris skillfully navigates the changes in external health market environments in the region. He began working with us in 2007 and he "immediately loved the singular focus of the organisation. I could tie my work every day back to a clear and vital purpose."
Claire has more than 16 years of international development experience, focused on providing vital strategic and operational support to contraception and safe abortion programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Long dedicated to our mission of realising the right of every individual to have children by choice, Claire brings additional programmatic experience and in-depth knowledge of reproductive health issues to the Board.
Claire was formerly Vice President and Deputy Director of International Programmes at MSI Reproductive Choices. In her time with us, she oversaw the expansion and development of our 18 country programmes across Africa and Latin America, focusing on increasing access to high-quality services, and on sustainable provision of contraception and comprehensive safe abortion.
Dr. Hashrat is based in Bangladesh and ensures clinical quality in Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, PHS India and FRHS India in her current role as Regional Medical Advisor.
Over the course of her career she has worked in multiple countries in the field of sexual and reproductive health as an obstetrician, gynaecologist and public health specialist. She started her career with Marie Stopes Bangladesh in 1995, and subsequently became a member of the Senior Management Team, where she was responsible for several large scale projects across hard-to-reach areas of Bangladesh.
Hashrat joined the Medical Development Team (MDT) in 2008 and has been actively involved in assuring clinical qualities align with best practices and clinical guidelines ever since. She is one of MDT's dedicated trainers and consistently strives to develop the capacity of clinical providers to make Marie Stopes International's services as safe as possible. She also collaborates with regional operations as a focal point regarding clinical quality of sexual and reproductive health service delivery.
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- Medical Development Team in 2017 As a Quality Advisor
- Quality Advisor - Public Sector Strengthening
An MSI clinician since 2010, Dr Kofi Sekyere joined the Medical Development Team in 2017 as a Quality Advisor within our Public Sector Strengthening channel. After completing medical school at the Kwame University of Science and Technology, he spent some time working in the affiliated teaching hospital. Kofi also has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Ghana. Before joining MSI, he managed the maternity unit of a district hospital where he provided obstetric, gynaecological and sexual and reproductive health services.
In his current role, Dr Kofi is responsible for monitoring and implementing quality assurance measures in a rapidly expanding channel of government providers. He is well-versed in advocating for clinical quality within Ministries of Health across the globe, and has supported MSI providers in training government providers in 22 countries.
Dr Rutter is a Board Member on the MSI Reproductive Choices Board of Trustees. She practised as a doctor in Iceland before joining McKinsey and Company in 2006, where she is now a Partner focusing on executive strategy and operations.
Dr Rutter gained an MBA from Harvard Business School and trained as a medical doctor at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine. She has served on our Board of Trustees since 2011.
Mohsina is a public health professional with 30 years of experience leading on programme design and management, skilled in designing and implementing innovative health service delivery channels.
She is a Medical graduate from Dow Medical University and has a Masters in Community Medicine from the Aga Khan Medical University and an executive MBA from the Henley Management Collage, UK.
Mohsina served as the Regional Director for West Asia until spring 2020, managing a group of countries which experienced a variety of challenges and perspectives, including continuing security challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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- Head of Obstetric Care
- Sp Gynaecology and Obstetrics
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- Country Director, MSI Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Country Director, Afghanistan
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director for MSI
- Country Director, Uganda
Dr. Carole Sekimpi, the Country Director for MSI's programme in Uganda, is also the current Board Chair of the Uganda Family Planning Consortium (UFPC). She is a medical doctor with a Master of Philosophy, Master of Public Health, and a registered member of Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council.
Dr. Carole is passionate about helping women and girls blossom to their fullest potential. she has over 15 years of experience working with both local and international non-governmental organisations, in clinical, programing, and management capacities.
She has an in-depth understanding of social and health issues, including Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV, and vulnerable children.
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- Global Medical Director / Find Out More
Dr. Perera is a public health professional with 17 years' experience as a medical doctor and over a decade's experience in international health service management.
Dr. Perera holds a medical degree from the University of Colombo, a masters' degree from the University of Manchester, and a PhD from Walden University, Minnesota. He has work experience in the field of healthcare in multiple Asian and African settings, and has provided quality improvement support to reproductive health service programmes in many countries.
Prior to joining MSI Reproductive Choices, Dr. Perera was the senior adviser for reproductive healthcare at the International Rescue Committee.
The former director of the medical team at Marie Stopes Mali, Dr. Sow joined the London-based Medical Development Team in 2016, taking on the role of Regional Medical Advisor for Francophone Africa, to assure the quality of services and monitor the implementation of MSI standards.
A general practitioner with a passion for providing quality reproductive health programmes, she is responsible for carrying out quality technical assistance (QTA) assessments in neighbouring countries, as well as advising them on how to strengthen their programmes. Dr. Sow is also one of our master trainers, specialising in family planning packages for Francophone countries.
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- Country Director, Kenya
- MSI Kenya 's Country Director
Dr Oracha is MSI Kenya's Country Director. She brings over 12 years of experience in programme development and management, strategy, and business, and has been a team leader in regional programmes across various organizations within sub-Saharan Africa.
Through her various roles, she has created large-scale impact through systemic change, institutional capacity development, women's economic empowerment, social investments, policy and influencing leading to the strengthening of development results across her projects.
She joined MSI as Country Director in November 2022.
An accomplished obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr. Thida began her MSI career nearly a decade ago as the Clinical Services Manager for our Myanmar programme. She now works on the Medical Development Team as a Regional Medical Advisor, providing peer-to-peer quality technical assistance and assessment to programmes in Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and India. She has also contributed to the improvement of clinical governance in Timor-Leste.
Her specialist areas include family planning services including long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), permanent methods and CCSPT, and she is one of MSI's master trainers, carrying out Training of Trainers (ToT) in family planning.
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- Member of the Board
- Country Director, Nigeria
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- Chairman of the Board of Trustees
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- Vice - President for Technical Services
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- Managing Director, Australia
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- Country Director, Bangladesh
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- Country Director, Madagascar
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice President
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- Member of the Board
- CEO, FRHS India
Mr. Ashutosh Kaushik has been associated with MSI Reproductive Choices and FRHS India for close to 7 years, holding various leadership roles, including at MSI Timor Leste, before taking on the role of CEO of FRHS India.
Ashutosh has more than two decades of experience both in the corporate and development sectors and has worked at senior levels with several international not-for-profit associations.
Ashutosh is on the Board of Population Health Services India (PHSI) and is a trustee for not-for-profit Sarvajan Unnati Bodhini Trust. Ashutosh holds an executive MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata, and a PG in Financial Management. In his free time, Ashutosh is a passionate mountain trekker.
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- Country Director, Vietnam
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- Country Director, Zimbabwe
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- Country Director, Senegal
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- CEO, MSI Reproductive Choices
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- Country Director, Cambodia
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- Global Director of People and Culture
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- Country Director, Burkina Faso
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- Country Director, Mongolia
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- Executive Director, Nepal
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- Country Director, Tanzania
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- Country Director, Romania
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- CEO, Population Health Services India