Staff Team


Executive Officers
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz Chief Executive
Deborah Vorhies Managing Director / Director of Operations
Christophe Bellmann Programmes Director
Andrew Crosby Managing Director for Operations and Strategy
Robert Oman Finance and Management Systems Manager
Senior Fellows and Resident Scholar
Pedro Roffe Intellectual Property Senior Fellow
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Regionalism and Aid for Trade Senior Fellow
Ambassador Sergio Marchi Senior Fellow
Carolyn Deere Resident Scholar
General Coordination and Human Resources
Oscar Fornoza General Coordinator and Human Resources Manager
Natalia Cubilla Human Resources Officer
Finance and Management Systems
James Muchira Interim Deputy Finance Manager
Alexandre Gagnaire IT Assistant
Robert Oman Finance and Management Systems Manager
Outreach & Communications
Caitlin Zaino Publications Manager
Cecile de Gardelle Dialogue Coordinator
Tamara Asamoah Publication Dissemination Officer
Programme Team
Trineesh Biswas Adviser to the Chief Executive
Moustapha Kamal Gueye Senior Associate
Adriana Verdier Projects Manager, Chief Executive's Office and Managing Editor Pontes
Johannes Bernabe Senior Associate
Damien Brulhart Special Assistant, Chief executive’s Office / Dialogue Coordinator / Global Platform
Programme Team: Agriculture
Marie Chamay Peyramayou Global Platform Manager
Jonathan Hepburn Agriculture Programme Officer
Ammad Bahalim Agriculture Programme Officer
Programme Team: Aid for Trade
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Regionalism and Aid for Trade Senior Fellow
Programme Team: China
Shuaihua Cheng Strategic Analysis and China Programme Officer
Jin Guan China Programme Associated Editor
Sun Shimeng Non resident China Intern
Programme Team: Competitiveness and Development
Paolo Ghisu Development Junior Programme Officer
Programme Team: Dispute Settlement
Marie Wilke Dispute Settlement and Legal Issues Junior Programme Officer
Benjamin J. Cote Dispute Settlement, Legal Issues and Periodicals Intern
Programme Team: Energy and Climate Change
Marie Chamay Peyramayou Global Platform Manager
Ana Maria Kleymeyer Senior Advisor on Climate Change Negotiations
Malena Sell Environment & Agriculture Senior Programme Officer
Mahesh Sugathan Economics & Trade Policy Analysis Programme Coordinator
Ingrid Jegou Global Platform Research Fellow
Joachim Monkelbaan Global Platform Programme Officer
Samantha S. Derksen Global Platform Research Assistant
Programme Team: Environment and Natural Resources
Marie Chamay Peyramayou Global Platform Manager
Malena Sell Environment & Agriculture Senior Programme Officer
Mahesh Sugathan Economics & Trade Policy Analysis Programme Coordinator
Programme Team: EPAs and Regionalism
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Regionalism and Aid for Trade Senior Fellow
El Hadji Diouf EPAs and Regionalism Programme Manager
Maximiliano Chab Regionalism Programme Officer
Programme Team: Intellectual Property
Pedro Roffe Intellectual Property Senior Fellow
Ahmed Abdel Latif Intellectual Property & Technology Programme Manager
Programme Team: Programmes Coordination
David Vivas-Eugui Deputy Programmes Director
Melissa Fourage Programmes Coordination Officer – Intern
Publications Team
Anja Halle Senior Editor and Editor for BRIDGES
Andrew Aziz Periodicals Coordinator and Bridges Trade BioRes Editor
Adriana Verdier Projects Manager, Chief Executive's Office and Managing Editor Pontes
Paige McClanahan Bridges Weekly Editor
Perla Buenrostro Puentes Editor
Natalia Shpilkovskaya Bridges in Russian Editor
Damon Vis-Dunbar Trade Negotiations Insights Editor
Daniela Helena Oliveira Godoy Pontes Research Assistant