Our Team
Experts and Staff

Patrick Verkooijen
Chief Executive Officer

Anthony Okon Nyong
Senior Director, Africa

Jaehyang So
Director of Strategy

Edward Mharadzirwa
Director of Finance and Operation

Alexandra Gee
Head of Communications

Mike Girling
Director of External Affairs

Fleur Wouterse
Director of Research

Shaikh Muhammed Mehedi Ahsan
Country Manager Bangladesh

Aiping Chen
Regional Director, China

Matthew McKinnon
Program Head, CVF

Abul Kalam Azad
Distinguished Fellow

Fiona Buruma
Senior Advisor, Finance and Operations

Ciska Voncken
Senior Operations Support Officer

Saleemul Huq
Senior Advisor, Locally-led Action

Seyni Nafo
Senior Advisor, Africa

Felipe Larraín Bascuñán
Senior Advisor, Climate Finance

Ede Ijjasz-Vásquez
Senior Advisor, Africa

Jamal Saghir
Senior Advisor

Ian Noble
Senior Advisor

Bruce Campbell
Senior Advisor, Food Security & Rural Well-being

Aramide Abe
Regional Program Manager, Youth Jobs and Entrepreneurship

Sara Ahmed
Senior Program Officer, V20

Oluyede Ajayi
Africa Program Lead, Food Security and Rural Well Being

Oluwabunmi Ajilore
Senior Program Officer, Food Security and Rural Well Being

Camilo Andres Benitez Avila
Fellow

Amanda Archibong
Senior Partnerships Manager, Africa

Eva Bik
Senior Officer, Strategy and Impact

Motasin Billah
Controller

Floris Boogaard
Affiliated Researcher

Genesis Boyer
Human Resources Officer

Danilo Amaral Cançado
Program Officer

Javier Carmona Diaz
Fellow

Pierre Conille
Senior Officer, Digital Communications & Diplomacy

Jingjing Dai
Program Officer

Gabriela Díaz Musmanni
Communications Officer

Julia Eichhorn
Research Analyst

Yasmina el Amine
Fellow

Daniel Flores Corral
Research Analyst

Aoife Fleming
Youth Leadership and Education Officer

Angus Friday
Senior Fellow

Réka Gugán
Special Assistant to the CEO

Alphonce Guzha
Senior Specialist, Water and Urban

Harriet Hopmans-Aisu
Senior Executive Assistant to the CEO

Sèlidji Hermann Tossou
Senior Program Officer, Food Security and Rural Well Being

Tanim Istiaque
Senior Infrastructure Officer for South Asia

Nitya Jacob
Facilitator of the Water Adaptation Community

Nitin Jain
Global Program Lead, Infrastructure & Nature-Based Solutions

Ase Johannessen
Senior Program Officer, Water

Priya Kanchan
Senior Partnerships Specialist

Divya Kapoor
Senior Monitoring & Evaluations Specialist

Sunday Kilara
Procurement and Contract Officer

Xuefei Liu
Senior Program Officer, Infrastructure for Africa

Hafiz Lawal
Regional Program Manager, Africa
Infrastructure & Nature-Based Solutions

Shahrin Mannan
Programme Officer, Locally Led Adaptation

Chinedu Moghalu
Senior Communication Advisor to the CEO

Mishel Mohan
Research Analyst

Arnoud Molenaar
Affiliated Lead Urban

Kulthoum Motsumi
Fellow

Rachel Mundilo
Senior Program Officer, CVF/V20

Sirazoom Munira
Program Officer, CVF/V20

Déthié Ndiaye
Regional Program Manager, Africa
Climate Finance

Charles Nhemachena
Senior Program Manager, Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program

Estelle Nikiema
Junior Program Manager, Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program

Celine Novenario
Digital Content Manager

Tannya Karin Pico Parra
Fellow

Menno Paauwe
Human Resources Manager

Nilesh Prakash
Fellow

Francesca Rappocciolo
Partnerships and External Affairs Specialist

Codie Rossi
Program Assistant, CVF

Lucia Scodanibbio
Fellow

Anju Sharma
Lead, Locally Led Adaptation

David Sharrock
Speechwriter

Abu Sumon
Senior Program Officer, Climate Finance

Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng
Fellow

Maria Tapia
Program Lead, Climate Finance

Gül Tuçaltan
Project Manager, Research for Impact

Adriana Patricia
Valenzuela Jimenez
Thematic Lead, Youth Leadership and Education

María José Vásquez
Program Officer, CVF/V20

Joep Verhagen
Program Lead, Water & Urban

Tom Wherry
Partnerships and External Affairs Officer

Selamawit Wubet
Program Coordinator, CVF

Yuelin Wu
Digital Content Creator

Sussy Yunes
Office & Facility Support Officer