Mónica Araya

Senior Steward, Environment + Climate

Hailing originally from Costa Rica and currently based in London, Monica researches and advises on sustainability throughout the world. While the primary focus of her own research now focuses on low-carbon development and climate finance, she has worked on a broad range of sustainability issues with a diversity of government, research and civil society agencies, including the Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Trade, Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Nairi Foundation, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Climate Change Capital, and E3G, a London-based think-tank.

With training in economics and environmental management, Monica has published over three dozen articles with a focus on developing and middle-income countries pioneering climate finance and low-carbon futures. Currently, she also serves as a senior policy adviser on projects in London, Berlin, Oslo and Costa Rica.

Monica holds a Masters in Economic Policy from the National University of Costa Rica and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in environmental management from Yale University, speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese, and enjoys practicing her French and German. In her spare time, Monica blogs regularly and is diligently working on her first novel.

Rashmir Balasubramaniam

Senior Steward, Business + Markets

Rashmir is Founder and CEO at Nsansa. Prior to Nsansa, Rashmir spent five years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led a cross-sector initiative on private sector engagement and market development and drove strategy and built and managed a diverse portfolio of grants for the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Program. With 15 years of experience across the public and private sectors, Rashmir has led and managed a variety of cross-sectoral development projects, including work on malaria, reproductive health, human resources for health, and institutional development. She has worked with a broad array of development organizations including TechnoServe, the World Bank, and International Planned Parenthood Federation. Her work has focused mainly on Africa but also includes projects in Asia and Latin America. Prior to pursuing her interests in International Development, Rashmir worked in investment banking and finance. Rashmir holds an MBA from Yale University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Studies from the University of London, and a BSc in mathematics and computer science from the University of Durham.

David Bonbright

Senior Steward, Impacts Community of Practice

David, a lawyer by training, is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone Accountability, an international charity dedicated to bringing constituency feedback to social change practice. In the early 1990s, he founded and led two African citizen sector resource centers, one relating to organizational and sectorial development (the Development Resources Centre, Johannesburg) and one relating to information and technology (SANGONeT, Johannesburg). As a grantmaker and executive with Aga Khan Foundation (1997-2004), Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (1994-1997), Oak Foundation (1988-90), and Ford Foundation (1983-87), David evolved and demonstrated innovative multi-stakeholder approaches to sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models. He has successfully caused systemic change at the national level in two countries, with influence traceable across the world, forging networks and mobilizing tens of millions of pounds along the way. He is a regular contributor to professional journals and blogs, and has authored and co-authored a number of reports and books, including, Creating an Enabling Legal Framework for Nonprofit Organizations in Pakistan (Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy, 2003), Enhancing Indigenous Philanthropy for Social Investment (Aga Khan Development Network, 2000), Philanthropy in Pakistan (Aga Khan Development Network, 2000), and Leading Public Entrepreneurs (Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, 1997). David sits on a number of the boards, advisory councils and knowledge networks, including the governing board of CIVICUS Global Alliance for Citizen Participation, where he is Vice-Chair.

Tobias Eigen

Senior Steward, Social Media Community of Practice

Tobias has been involved in iScale since 2007, first as a participant in the Communications Community of Practice and then joining the team in the summer of 2008. He is the Executive Director of Kabissa, an organization he founded in 1999. Kabissa is now a network of over 1300 African civil society groups and 4000 people devoted to positive change in Africa, brought together by the shared desire to improve their impact on their own communities through the innovative application of information and communication technologies.

Tobias has been engaged in "Internet in Africa" since 1992, when he took a job creating a private email network for the USAID Famine Early Warning System Project, a project with more than a dozen field offices throughout the Sahel region of Africa collaborating on early warning bulletins. He went from there to providing consulting services to development projects for Africare, Volunteers in Technical Assistance and a number of other international agencies working in Africa. In the early 1990s he also helped his father, Peter Eigen, develop an e-mail communication network and Internet strategy for his fledgling organization which would become Transparency International, a powerful international anti-corruption movement that is today a sophisticated worldwide leader in the use of ICT for advocacy and network organization. He was compelled to start Kabissa after a two-year stint at Oneworld.net from 1998-2000 and a particularly transformative IT consulting project he did with human rights organizations in Nigeria.

Tobias has a BS in German and African studies (1994) from Georgetown University and an MA in Culture, Race and Difference (1997) from the University of Sussex.

Randall B. Kemp

Steward and Collaboration Manager, Innovations for Scaling Impact
Steward, Social Media Community of Practice, and others

Randy, Information Steward at iScale, joined iScale in 2008. Prior to iScale, he was  a research assistant working on projects related to international development and humanitarian action. He has published articles on information management in disaster risk reduction, public participatory Geographic Information Systems, privacy of information, intellectual property, and faceted classification. He worked as a librarian at UC Santa Barbara and Denver Seminary. He graduated with an MA in Information and Library Studies from the University of Michigan and an MA in Christian Studies from Denver Seminary. During summers in college he, on a few occasions, fought forest fires. He now puts out fires of a different kind with his wife and their two children in Ketchum, ID.

At iScale Randy is currently working on the peacebuilding action learning collaboration, GIFT, and other collaborations. In this role, he helps with data collection, organization, and analysis. As the Information Steward he addresses information organization, technology adaptation, and related information communication matters, including, in partnership with colleagues, the administration of the iScale website.

Sanjeev Khagram

Senior Steward and CEO, Innovations for Scaling Impact
Senior Steward, Network of Global Action Networks (GAN-Net), Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, and others

Sanjeev is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral leadership, research, and capacity building in the areas of globalization and transnationalism, sustainable development, human security, good governance, public policy, partnerships, social networks, corporate social responsibility, civil society, strategic management, impact assessment. He is currently Professor of Public Affairs and International Studies at the University of Washington. In 2009, he was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and was lead author of the UN Secretary General's Report on the Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis on the Poor. Previously he was a Wyss Scholar at the Harvard Business School, Director of the Lindenberg Center for International Development, Dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Associate Professor at Harvard's JFK School of Government, and Senior Strategy/Policy officer at the World Commission on Dams. He has published widely including: Restructuring World Politics, with University of Minnesota Press; Dams and Development, with Cornell University Press; The Transnational Studies Reader with Routledge Press; "Inequality and Corruption" in the American Journal of Sociology; "Future Architectures of Global Governance" in the journal Global Governance, "Environment and Security" in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, "Social Balance Sheets" in Harvard Business Review - Latin America, "Evidence for Development Effectiveness, in the Journal of Development Effectiveness, and "Towards A Platinum Standard For Evidence-Based Assessment," in Public Administration Review. Khagram has worked extensively with action networks, cross-sectoral partnerships, multilateral agencies, governments, corporations, civil society organizations, professional associations and universities all over the world. He holds a B.A. in development studies/engineering, an M.A. in economics (from the Food Research Institute), and a Ph.D. in political science, all from Stanford University.

Natalia Kiryttopoulou

Steward, Impacts Community of Practice

Originally from Greece, Natalia, formerly Advisor and Research Associate at Keystone, studied Law in the French Universities of Caen and Toulouse where she specialized in International and European Law. Further on she moved to Spain where she completed postgraduate studies in International Commerce and a Master's degree in International Law and Relations at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has collaborated voluntarily as a researcher with the international cooperation department of Intermon Oxfam (Spain).

Natalia's current work involves strategic research on performance measurement and reporting of developmental processes and the use of participatory methods for enhancing the accountability of citizen organizations to their constituents. She speaks and writes fluently in Greek, English, French and Spanish.

Maya Magarati

Steward, Innovations for Scaling Impact

Maya has more than 15 years of international development, policy and research work experience, including developing national nutrition programs in Nepal, researching determinants of infant mortality in Vietnam, developing policies that reduce disparities in child and family outcomes in Washington State, and conducting behavioral health needs and capacity assessment to address health disparities within American Indian/Alaska Native communities. A key aspect of her research and evaluation works underlies considering socio-economic structural determinants of disparate social mobility and health outcomes for racial/ethnic groups.

Maya currently holds the position of research scientist at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. She has skills and expertise to manage all aspects of research and evaluation processes including theory-of-change and logic-model development, survey instrument design and administration, data collection, management, analysis and reporting of findings. In addition, she teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on poverty and inequality, immigration and global health. Maya received her BH-Science in nutrition & dietetics from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and her MA and PhD in sociology at the University of Washington.

Subarna Nandi Mathes

Steward and Collaboration Manager, Innovations for Scaling Impact
Steward, Impacts Community of Practice, International Advocacy Evaluation Community of Practice, and others

Subarna is a Steward of International Advocacy and Network Evaluation at iScale. She designs and implements monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems, particularly for complex and complicated initiatives such as advocacy efforts and global networks. She has evaluation experience in the fields of HIV/AIDS and women’s rights and livelihoods, particularly in the contexts of South Asia and sub Saharan Africa. At iScale, Subarna works with human rights organizations, including Crisis Action, Human Rights Watch, and Global Witness to strengthen their advocacy monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems. She led in the design and implementation of an IPARL system for the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS, a multi-level advocacy campaign across six sub-Saharan African countries. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Evaluation Innovation where she is looking at ways in which to advance the field of international advocacy evaluation and learning, with a particular focus on looking more deeply at the needs and demands of advocates working on the ground in the global south.

Prior to iScale, Subarna managed a Gates Foundation-funded collaborative action-learning initiative to develop and implement the next frontier of advocacy impacts, learning, and evaluation. She also conducted an evaluation of ActionAid India's post-tsunami recovery programs. Subarna has graduate degrees in South Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and in Public Administration from the University of Washington. She speaks fluent Bengali and is proficient in Hindi and Urdu. 

Andre Proctor

Senior Steward, Impacts Community of Practice

Andre is the Keystone partner who leads on the development of the technical support infrastructure for Keystone reporting - materials, workshops, and certification of technical support providers.

Andre has an academic background in African History and Development Studies. He has worked for more than twenty-five years in education and training, which has included research, curriculum development, publishing, and the design of web-based educational programs. Andre has been a consultant to various museum and community-based tourism projects, including the Nelson Mandela Gateway Exhibition, Robben Island Museum, Ubunye Museum, and the Madikwe Initiative. He is the author of five series of History and Social Studies textbooks for new school curricula in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and two children's books. He has authored materials on quality assurance for further education institutions in South Africa; designed a web-based training course for small business exporters in the SADC. He also created an e-course 'Mobilising Resources for Sustainability' for managers of civil society organizations.

Most recently he has developed a set of competency standards with the Sustainability Institute which will form the basis for a professional qualification framework for community-based development workers in the emerging field of Development Management and Practice.

Rinalia Abdul Rahim

Senior Steward, Network of Global Action Networks (GAN-Net)

Rinalia Abdul Rahim, Trustee at the Global Knowledge Partnership Secretariat and Independent Consultant, is an expert in developing and managing global multi-stakeholder networks and has wide experience in the field of "ICT for Development". She led the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) as Executive Director from 2001-2008 and positioned it as the world's leading multi-stakeholder network in the field of "ICT and Knowledge for Development". From 1997 - 2001, she supported the Malaysian Government in developing its national ICT strategies, policies and programs through tri-sectoral stakeholder engagement and initiatives. Rinalia is an effective advocate and convener and has conceptualized and moderated various multi-stakeholder discussions and fora at the regional and global level on issues related to access, empowerment and governance in the Information Age.

Rinalia holds advisory positions with the United Nations, the Malaysian Government, the Wawasan Open University (Malaysia), the International Task Force on Women and ICT, and the Youth Social Enterprise Initiative. She served as Vice Chair of the GAN-NET Council from 2007 to 2008. Rinalia has a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Princeton University.

Dacil Acevedo Riquelme

Senior Steward, Network of Global Action Networks (GAN-Net), Impacts Community of Practice

Dacil is a Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations, currently finishing her doctoral thesis on "Global Action Networks: its impact in the governance in Latin America." She is the Director of Stratego Consulting and has 13 years of experience as international consultant in the development field working with public and private stakeholders. She is a certified corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultant by the Interamerican Development Bank in association to the Global Compact Network in Panama. She is also an associated consultant to Stratego Communications - the top leading strategic communications and public affairs company in Panama - and since March 1, 2009, part of the leading team of Stratego Consulting, a top consulting firm with national, regional and global outreach.

Among other recognitions, Dacil has received the "Young Leader Award 2001" by the Asia Pacific Public Affairs Forum (APPAF) for her contributions to global civil society. Between the years 2002-2008, she had a key role in the YES Campaign (Youth Employment Systems) promoting and developing the YES Networks as YES Country Coordinator, YES Latin America Regional Coordinator and YES Global Network Coordinator. She continues to contribute to YES in Latin America in a volunteer/honorific role. She is currently part of the Stewardship Group of the Latin America Leadership initiative promoted by AVINA. She has been an active participant of iScale since 2006, contributing in the Impacts Community of Practice and the Strategy, Structure and Governance Community of Practice, as well as in the inter-GAN collaboration project in Guatemala.

James L. Ritchie-Dunham

Senior Steward, Network of Global Action Networks (GAN-Net) Strategy Structure and Governance Community of Practice

Jim's work within and across business, civil society, and government sectors, as a researcher, consultant, and board member, bridges the rigorous characterization of social systems and the rigorous characterization of the individual and collective intentional mental models of those social systems, creating greater individual and collective strategic clarity. Jim specializes in developing and applying analytical tools and processes, founded in the decision, systems, and behavioral sciences. Previously Jim was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a professor at the ITAM in Mexico City, an advisor to the Mexican Secretary of Health, and a petroleum engineer at Conoco. He has a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa. He has a Masters of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the ESADE in Barcelona. He has a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jim is President of the Institute for Strategic Clarity; Managing Partner at Growing Edge Partners; and Associate at Harvard University.

Steve Waddell

Senior Steward, Network of Global Action Networks (GAN-Net)

Steve is Principal at Network Action where he supports organizational, network, and societal change and development, through consultation, education, research, and personal leadership. He focuses upon intersectoral (business-government-civil society) and inter-organizational collaboration to produce innovation, enhance impact, and build new capacity. These initiatives may be local, national and/or global. The topics are varied, including water, forestry, youth, finance, economic development, and peace. 

Steve has been doing this for more than 20 years, working with others as clients, funders, sponsors, and project partners. He is founding Executive Director of Global Action Network Net (GAN-Net) and Leadership for Change (an executive management program at Boston College); founder of the Strategy-Structure-Governance Community of Practice (SSGCoP); Steward with iScale; co-founder of what is now Canada's largest family of socially responsible mutual funds; and co-lead of the Global Finance Initiative (GFI). 

Steve has dozens of publications, including the book Societal Learning and Change: Innovation with Multi-Stakeholder Strategies and Networking Action: Organizing for the 21^st Century, is in development. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology and a Masters in Business Administration.

Bonaventure Wakana

Senior Steward and Collaboration Manager, Innovations for Scaling Impact
Senior Steward, Impacts Community of Practice, International Advocacy Evaluation Community of Practice, and others

Bonaventure has 20 years of experience in international development and civil society organizations, with over 15 of those years in high level position in international non-governmental organizations. For eight years he was the International Programming Director of ACORD (Agency for Co-Operation and Research in Development – a UK-based international development NGO). He has experience working in more than 20 African countries as well as a particular background regarding fragile states, gender sensitive recovery, and post-conflict recovery, rehabilitation and development programs. Bonaventure has a degree in Economic and Social Science from the University of Burundi and a post-graduate diploma in Project Management from the Center for Studies and Multidisciplinary Training in Belgium, is fluent in French and English, and speaks Swahili.