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
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
Program Lead, Jobs for Youth & 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
Olivia Allen
Facilitator of Water Adaptation Community
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
Ysabella Goedhart
Junior Program Officer, Research for Impact
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
Sandie Kouame
Senior Program Officer, Innovative Climate Finance Africa
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
Nicholas Tandi
Senior Specialist, Urban Africa
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
Ciska Voncken
Senior Executive Assistant to the CEO
Paul Vernus
Research Analyst
Tom Wherry
Partnerships and External Affairs Officer
Selamawit Wubet
Program Coordinator, CVF
Yuelin Wu
Digital Content Creator
Sussy Yunes
Office & Facility Support Officer
Amara Zongo
Research Fellow