Staff Directory
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Senior Program Specialist |
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Edith Ofwona-Adera
Nairobi, Kenya |
Senior Program Specialist |
254-20-2713160/61
ext. 3406 |
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Senior Program Specialist |
598-2-709-0042
ext. 3229 |
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Senior Program Specialist |
613-696-2371 |
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Sara Ahmed
New Delhi, India |
Senior Program Specialist |
91-11-2461-9411
ext. 7403 |
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Senior Program Officer |
613-696-2507 |
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Carrie Mitchell
Ottawa, Canada |
Senior Program Officer |
613-696-2067 |
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Senior Program Officer |
613-696-2493 |
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Heidi Braun
Ottawa, Canada |
Program Management Officer |
613-696-2479 |
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Alicia Iglesias
Montevideo, Ururguay |
Program Management Officer |
598-2-709-0042
ext. 3228 |
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Clara Saavedra
Montevideo, Ururguay |
Junior Grant Assistant |
598-2-709-0042
ext. 3230 |
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Nicole Mayer
Ottawa, Canada |
Program Assistant |
613-696-2309 |
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Archana Datta
Ottawa, Canada |
Research Award Recipient |
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 Mark Redwood Program Leader
Mark Redwood is Program Leader for the Climate Change and Water program, based in Ottawa, Canada. An urban and environmental planner, Mark specializes in water, sanitation, and urban agriculture.
Wastewater is one of Mark’s areas of focus – he develops and manages numerous projects involving its safe treatment and reuse for agriculture. He has published numerous articles and books on urban environmental issues including wastewater management, sanitation, and urban farming.
Mark holds a master’s degree from McGill University’s Urban Planning program.
 Bhim Adhikari Senior Program Specialist
Bhim Adhikari is a Senior Program Specialist with the Climate Change and Water program, based in Ottawa, Canada. Bhim is an environmental social scientist with expertise in environmental economics, institutional analysis, climate change adaptation, and community-based natural resource management.
Before joining IDRC, Bhim worked with a number of organizations and academic institutions, including the United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), the United Nations’ think tank on water. At the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Pakistan, he tackled issues around the poverty-environment nexus, environmental fiscal reforms, and mainstreaming environment into poverty reduction strategies. He also focused on energy development-environment linkages and community development while working with a rural energy project at the United Nation’s Development Program in Nepal.
Bhim has worked at the University of Michigan as a Research Fellow and was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York. He also worked as consultant and visiting researcher for the Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan; UNDP, New York; and TERI University in India. He was nominated as a Fellow of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) in 2005.
Bhim holds a PhD in Environmental Economics and Management from the University of York, UK.
 Edith Ofwona-Adera
Senior Program Specialist
Edith Ofwona-Adera has extensive experience managing innovative ICT4D projects – specifically projects that use information and communication technologies to improve health, governance, education, agriculture, and gender equality in Africa. At IDRC, Ofwona-Adera has been pivotal in supporting the development of Uganda’s and Kenya’s telecommunication strategies. From 2001 to 2002, she represented IDRC on a G8 working group focused on e-content development. She recently co-authored a book called Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa. Ofwona-Adera also holds leadership positions on boards and committees of several governmental and non-profit organizations in Kenya and internationally. She co-founded the Kenya Information Society and is a member of the International Telecommunication Union’s gender working group. Before joining IDRC, she was responsible for various development projects in the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture. Ofwona-Adera holds an MSc in agricultural economics from the University of Nairobi.
 Walter Ubal Giordano
Senior Program Specialist
Walter Ubal Giordano is a Senior Program Specialist for the Climate Change and Water Program, based at IDRC’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Montevideo, Uruguay. Walter joined IDRC in 2002 as Executive Director of the Environmental Management Secretariat for Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, he managed a regional initiative in central and southeastern Europe for the United Nations Development Programme. He has acted as a consultant on environmental management for United Nations agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Industrial Development Organization. In recent years, he has worked extensively on urban solid waste and water management with a special emphasis on governance and environmental economic issues in poor areas of LAC cities. He holds Master of Science in Environmental Economics from the WYE College in London, England, and completed postgraduate studies in environmental management systems and statistics.
 Marco Rondon
Senior Program Specialist
Marco Rondon is a Senior Program Specialist with IDRC’s Climate Change and Water program, based in Ottawa, Canada. He is an expert in natural resource management and climate change adaptation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Marco’s work cuts across issues such as the environmental and social impacts of large-scale biofuel crop expansion in South America, retreating Andean glaciers and sea level rise in coastal zones and the Caribbean, as well as management and governance of water and agricultural resources in the face of climate change. Before joining IDRC, Marco coordinated the climate change program of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture and managed a research program to rehabilitate degraded lands in the Amazon as part of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia. He has published research on land-use change and greenhouse-gas emissions, biological nitrification inhibition in tropical environments, the use of bio-char for improving soil fertility, and the promotion of carbon sequestration in soils. Marco also has experience developing projects within the Clean Development Mechanism and the Voluntary Carbon Markets. Rondon is a chemical engineer and holds a PhD in biogeochemistry from Cornell University (US).
 Sara Ahmed
Senior Program Officer
Sara Ahmed is a Senior Program Specialist jointly with the Climate Change and Water program and the Agriculture and Food Security program, based at IDRC’s Regional Office for South Asia and China in New Delhi. Before joining IDRC in 2009, Sara was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India. She also worked with a number of non-governmental organizations on issues ranging from the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities to questions of gender justice, good governance, livelihoods, and water conflicts. More recently, Sara chaired the Gender and Water Alliance, a global network, and was a board member of several leading NGOs and policy forums in India. She was also a Senior Associate at the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, facilitating research on the differential dimensions of vulnerability to climate risks in South Asia. Sara holds a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of Cambridge and has produced several publications on water policy and gender issues.
Senior Program Officer
Michele Leone is a Senior Program Officer with IDRC’s Climate Change and Water program, based in Ottawa, Canada. Michele is a physicist and an expert in complex systems modeling, renewable energy, and energy transfer processes. His work at IDRC focuses on understanding the water-energy nexus in the context of environmentally sustainable development, and on building the organizational capacity of institutions conducting applied research on climate change adaptation in Africa.
Before Joining IDRC, Michele was a lecturer and project manager at the University of Malawi and worked with various development organizations in East and Southern Africa. He also worked with the UNESCO Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics on higher scientific education projects in Cuba, Kenya, and Malawi.
He holds a Master of Science in Condensed Matter Physics and a PhD in statistical physics from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy.
 Carrie Mitchell
Senior Program Officer
Carrie Mitchell is a Senior Program Officer for the Climate Change and Water Program, based in Ottawa, Canada. She manages research on climate change and urban environmental management in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. Before joining IDRC, Carrie conducted research on urban change and informal waste recyclers in Hanoi, Vietnam and worked on a CIDA-funded urban waste management project in Vientiane, Laos. Carrie obtained her PhD in Environmental Geography from the University of Toronto. She also holds a Master of Science in Urban Planning and a Bachelor’s degree in International Development. She has published and lectured on informality, urbanization, waste management, and qualitative and quantitative research methods.
 Mélanie Robertson
Senior Program Officer
Mélanie Robertson is a Senior Program Officer for the Climate Change and Water program, based in Ottawa, Canada. She manages research projects on sustainable natural resource management in West and Southern Africa, most of which focuses on the use of geographic information systems in natural resources management. Before joining IDRC, Mélanie worked at the Université du Québec’s Institut national de la recherche scientifique. There, she coordinated international research projects on the environmental effects of modern urban transformations. She has also worked in Indonesia, Vietnam, and China on urban change and the use of geographic information systems to inform decision-making. Mélanie obtained her PhD in geography from the Université de Montréal and has also conducted post-doctoral research in geography at the Institut français d'urbanisme at the Université de Paris VIII.
 Heidi Braun
Program Management Officer
Heidi Braun is a Program Management Officer with the Climate Change and Water program, based in Ottawa, Canada. Before joining the CCW team, she worked as a Program Management Officer with the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program. She has also worked with IDRC’s Policy and Planning Group as a summer student and as a research intern with the Donor Partnership Division. Heidi has a background in environment and development issues and has also led experiential education programs in Canada. She worked with a community-based resource centre in Western Kenya through Canadian Crossroads International and as a Project Leader with Katimavik. Heidi holds a BA in International Development and an MSc in Capacity Development and Extension, both from the University of Guelph.
 Alicia Iglesias
Program Management Officer
Alicia Iglesias is a Program Management Officer with the Climate Change and Water Program, based at IDRC’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her areas of interest include urban environmental planning and management, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction at the local level, and local development policies. Before joining IDRC, Alicia worked extensively in multidisciplinary teams implementing urban development programs and projects in developing countries, in particular in the LAC region. She has worked on projects supported promoted by the Inter-American Development Bank, the Global Environment Facility, United Nations Environment Program UNEP, United Nations Development Program UNDP, and European Union, among others. Alicia holds a Master of Science in Urban Planning from the Development Planning Unit (DPU) of the University College London UCL-England; a Master in Science in Local and Regional Development from the Catholic University of Uruguay, and a Diploma in Architecture and Town planning from the Universidad de la República in Uruguay.
 Clara Saavedra
Junior Grant Assistant
Clara Saveedra is a Junior Grant Assistant with IDRC’s Climate Change and Water program, based at IDRC’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Montevideo, Uruguay. She has experience and skills in project administration, managing operational and administrative activities, and liaising with project recipients and international government partners. Clara is fluent in Spanish and English and has a working knowledge of Italian, French, and Portuguese.
 Nicole Mayer
Program Assistant
Nicole is Program Assistant for the Climate Change and Water program, based in Ottawa, Canada. Nicole joined IDRC in April 2007 as Program Assistant for the Urban Poverty and Environment program. Before joining IDRC, she worked as an office manager and administrative assistant with a wide variety of non-governmental organizations, including the Canadian Council for International Cooperation, Cooperation Canada Mozambique, Partnership Canada Africa (part-time), CANADEM, and the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development.
 Archana DattaResearch Award Recipient
Archana Datta is the Climate Change and Water Program’s 2012 Research Award Recipient. Her research will examine the institutional and economic barriers to rainwater harvesting in urban Malawi, as a way of both improving water security and promoting adaptation to climate change in the country.
Datta obtained her master’s in environment and resource studies from the University of Waterloo, where she studied the institutions and practices for channeling multilateral aid for climate change adaptation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science (honours) from Randolph College, Virginia. |
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