Economist
PhD student in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) at the University of California, Davis. Prior to his PhD, Heng Zhu obtained a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Merced. He has been a consultant with the International Fund for Agricultural Development. His research interests lie in the areas of development economics, labor and migration, and applied econometrics.
Business Developer
Shenica S. Nelson, M.S. is a Industrial Organizational Psychologist and Chief Operating Officer at SOPH Consulting, LLC- A Solution Driven Business Consulting Firm Specializing in Organization Operational Development, Grant Writing and Federal Contracting.
Her research interest includes business analysis, organizational development, corporate policy development and business education.
Graphic Designer
Momir Blazek graduated 1999 at the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the University of Zagreb.
He has worked as a graphic designer of several magazines and best-selling books and gained a lot of experience in commercial and non-profit sector. Since 2014, he has designed the main charity campaigns for Croatian Caritas reaching more than 300.000 children each year.
Policy Analyst
Political scientist, international consultant and researcher. Director of the Foundation Platform for Social Transformation. He previously worked for the European Office of the Inter-American Development Bank, the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in Costa Rica, the Economic and Social Council of the Netherlands and the Strategic Research Program of Bolivia. Petri holds a Master's Degree in Comparative Politics with a specialty in Latin America from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (Sciences Po), fellow of excellence of the French government. He is a PhD candidate at VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Visiting Professor at Bar-Ilan University (Israel) and Regent's Park College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). As a Mexican-Dutch author he has published on freedom of religion, religion and politics, social dialogue, parliamentary reform and democratic assistance. His most recent publication is Aprendamos a incidir. Estrategias y herramientas para una incidencia política efectiva (2017). He has testified in the parliaments of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Mexico, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Communications Director
Noemi Mena Montes is a journalist with a PhD in Political Communication and an expert on migration and intercultural communication. She has ten years lecturing experience in BA and MA courses in Journalism, Communication and Political Communication at Leiden Webster Campus, Erasmus University, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universidad de Salamanca and as a visitor scholar at Tel Aviv University, ASCoR (UvA) and the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam.
Previously, she worked as a radio journalist in Spain, as a freelance correspondent-researcher in the Middle East, and as a communication advisor for a European political foundation. In 2011, she received the Spanish National Award for best research on Migration Studies in 2011 (Premio Santo Padre Rubio), as well as a prize for the most read article by Latina Communication Journal (2014)
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