Our People


Executive Office
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz Chief Executive
Caroline Imesch Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive
Christophe Bellmann Programmes Director
Andrew Crosby Managing Director, Operations and Strategy
Deborah Vorhies Managing Director, Director of Operations
Natalia Cubilla Special Assistant to Managing Directors and Dialogue Coordinator (Climate Change and Energy)
Associates
Carolyn Deere Birkbeck Senior Associate (Global Economic Governance)
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Senior Associate
Pedro Roffe Senior Associate (Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property)
Senior Fellows
Manzoor Ahmad Senior Fellow
Lara Birkes Senior Fellow
Thomas L. Brewer Senior Fellow
Peter C. Brun Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the SETI Alliance
John M. Curtis Senior Fellow
Beatriz Leycegui Senior Fellow
Sherry M. Stephenson Senior Fellow
Research Fellows
Moustapha Kamal Gueye Senior Research Fellow
Mahesh Sugathan Research Fellow
Programme Team
Ahmed Abdel Latif Senior Programme Manager (Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property)
Daniella Allam Junior Programme Officer (Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property)
Vinaye Ancharaz Senior Development Economist
Ammad Bahalim Programme Officer (Agriculture)
Marie Chamay Peyramayou Manager (Global Initiative)
Shuaihua Cheng Senior Programme Officer (Asia Pacific and China); Managing Director China Office
Paolo Ghisu Programme Officer (Competitiveness and Development)
Jonathan Hepburn Programme Manager (Agriculture)
Ingrid Jegou Programme Manager (Climate Change and Energy)
Joachim Monkelbaan Programme Officer (Climate Change and Energy)
Anne-Katrin Pfister Programme Officer (Competitiveness and Development)
Malena Sell Senior Programme Officer (Environment and Natural Resources)
Duy Trinh Intern (Competitiveness and Development)
Marco Valenza Intern (Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property)
Alexander Bandhu Intern (Global Platform – Climate Change and Energy)
Alexandra Pluss Intern (Agriculture)
Sara Traubel Intern (Competitiveness and Development)
Publications Team
Andrew Aziz Managing Editor, ICTSD Periodicals and Editor, Bridges Trade BioRes
Sofia Alicia Baliño Editor, Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
Kiranne Dévi Guddoy Managing Editor, Bridges Africa
Anja Halle Senior Editor
Joe Quinn Intern (Bridges Weekly Trade Digest)
Margaretta Burdick Intern (Bridges Weekly Trade Digest)
Affan Mian Intern (Bridges Biores Digest)
Lorena Rivera-Orjuela Intern (Puentes)
David Smith Intern (Passerelles and Bridges Africa)
Marta Menshikova Intern (Mosty)
Programme Support
Steve Farrow Human Resources Manager
Cecile de Gardelle Dialogue Coordinator
Jonathan S. Ghitman Financial Analyst
Rashmi Jose Programme Coordinator
Massimiliano Leone Digital and Social Media Specialist
James Muchira Finance Manager
Giacomo Pascolini Production and Marketing Coordinator
Denis Omumbwa Interim Dialogues Coordinator
Chris Ruck Research Assistant to the Chief Executive
Chiara Boccanera Intern (Production and Marketing)
Claire Pursey Intern (Dialogues/Marketing)
Core Partners and External Collaborators
Suyen Alonso Ubieta Puentes
Randall Arce Alvarado Puentes
Perla Buenrostro Managing Editor, Puentes
Carlos Murillo-Rodriguez Puentes
Olga Ponizova Mosty
Natalia Shpilkovskaya Managing Editor, Mosty
Cheikh Tidiane Dieye Passerelles
Bruno Miranda Pontes
Michelle Ratton-Sanchez Editorial Advisor
Manuela Trindade Viana Managing Editor, Pontes
Lei Zhang Qiao
Luwei Feng Qiao