Annik comes to Humber The Business School with over twenty years of international experience in the NGO sector, with specific expertise in advocacy, humanitarian aid and training and development. Her professional experience comes from holding senior positions with Medecins sans Frontieres, the Red Cross, and Canada World Youth. Annik's international exposure spans five continents, from North America (USA and Mexico), South America (Columbia, Brazil), Asia (Pakistan, Russia, Bangladesh), Europe (Austria, Germany, Switzerland), and Africa (Senegal, Ghana, Kenya). Annik has a LLB from Laval University in Canada.
Otto brings over eight years of international humanitarian relief and development program management to Humber The Business School. He has worked for World Vision Canada, World Vision International in Mongolia, and the World Bank after completing his Master's degree in Oriental/Mongolian Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary. Otto is the author of a number of academic publications and was a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University in the early 1990s.
Alan has worked for over thirty years designing and delivering community development and humanitarian assistance initiatives in areas of; conflict prevention and recovery/rehabilitation, community mental health, peace education and reconciliation. He has worked with World Vision and Indonesia Canada Forum in Indonesia, the Mennonite Central Committee in Cambodia, Indonesia and Zaire/Congo to achieve peaceful transformation in post-conflict areas. Alan is a graduate of the University of Manitoba's Master of Arts program in medical/development geography.
Andres is a consultant in Finance and Accounting Systems for International NGOs. Andres began his international development work administering development and relief projects in his native Peru. Prior to this he spent many years as a management consultant for Price Waterhouse Coopers, a global consulting firm. Later he focused on developing projects centered around small business financing. His work has emphasized programs providing loans to small and micro entrepreneurs in rural and urban areas of Latin America. He has been involved with setting up and running accounting and control systems for corporations and nonprofit international organizations and has extensive experience with international NGOs such as World Vision and with The Prism Group implementing USAID projects. He is currently involved with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives of mining companies operating in Latin America.
Andres holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Catholic University in Lima and a Masters in Business Administration from Eastern University in Pennsylvania. In addition to English, he speaks Spanish fluently and has a working knowledge of Portuguese and French.
For the past twelve years, Mary has worked in Canada and internationally as an advocate for social justice and human rights. Mary brings a blend of research and communications expertise that combines participatory research methods with strategic communications to help organizations influence social change. She has worked with governments, international NGOs and not-for-profit agencies including Right To Play, Amnesty International, and Toronto Public Health. Mary holds a Master of Arts in Comparative, International and Development Education. She has worked and studied in Europe, Asia, Africa and Canada and has traveled extensively to over 20 countries. She excels at researching and harnessing various media (including documentary film, new media, photography, and E-learning modules) to investigate and address a range of development issues, including sexual health, health promotion, early childhood education and human rights.
Since graduating from the University of Guelph with a Master's in International Development, Michael has worked with World Vision Canada, the Fellowship for African Relief in the Sudan, the United Nations Development program in Maldives and various private sector companies. Michael's expertise lies in project development, management, monitoring and evaluation, as well as professional training and development.
John has been involved in teaching, research, writing and development work for the last twenty-five years. He brings experience in a range of global contexts and in number of different occupational fields. He has trained secondary school teachers and university lecturers through the University of Natal (South Africa), taught development studies and media-in-education to postgraduate students at South African universities, involved himself in the teaching of literacy and the training of literacy teachers in South Africa and trained salespeople and senior executives in the IT and financial sectors in Canada and South Africa to communicate better.
Aside from formal academic research, John has also evaluated development projects - primarily education and media-in-education projects - in Canada, South Africa, Mozambique, Jamaica and Zambia. He is passionate about writing, and has contributed as a journalist in South Africa and as a writer of educational texts for use by health educators, teachers and school students in Canada and South Africa.