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
Senior Associates and Resident Scholar
Pedro Roffe Intellectual Property Senior Associate
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Senior Associate
Carolyn Deere Resident Scholar
Operations and Human Resources
Oscar Fornoza Communications and Outreach Manager
James Muchira Finance Manager
Steve Farrow Human Resources Manager
Jonathan S. GHITMAN Financial Analyst
Outreach & Communications
Cecile de Gardelle Dialogue Coordinator
Samuel W. Carmalt Interim IT Officer
Giacomo Pascolini Production and Marketing Coordinator
Massimiliano Leone Web and Social Media Maestro
Arzoo Fatima Syeddah Intern, Gender Issues
Ravi Marc Renganathan Intern, Production and Marketing
Programme Team
Marie Chamay Peyramayou Global Initiative Manager
Adriana Verdier Projects Manager, Chief Executive's Office and Managing Editor, Pontes
Caroline Imesch Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive
Programme Team: Agriculture
Jonathan Hepburn Agriculture Programme Manager
Ammad Bahalim Agriculture Programme Officer
Programme Team: Aid for Trade
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Senior Associate
Paolo Ghisu Development Programme Officer
Anne-Katrin Pfister Development Junior Programme Officer
Programme Team: China
Shuaihua Cheng Senior Programme Officer, Head of Asia Pacific and China
Jin Guan Associate Editor, Qiao
Hui-Ting Lien Intern, Production & Marketing and China Programme
Ting Fang Intern, China Programme
Programme Team: Competitiveness and Development
Paolo Ghisu Development Programme Officer
Anne-Katrin Pfister Development Junior Programme Officer
Programme Team: Environment and Natural Resources
Malena Sell Environment & Agriculture Senior Programme Officer
George Riddell Intern, Environment and Natural Resources
Programme Team: Global Platform on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainable Energy
Ingrid Jegou Global Platform Manager
Mahesh Sugathan Economics & Trade Policy Analysis Programme Coordinator
Joachim Monkelbaan Global Platform Programme Officer
Natalia Cubilla Global Platform Dialogue Coordinator and Special Assistant to Managing Director / Director of Operations
Sonja Johanna Lubecki Intern, Global Platform
Rafael Jacques Rodrigues Intern, Global Platform
Programme Team: Innovation, Technology and Intellectual Property
Pedro Roffe Intellectual Property Senior Associate
Ahmed Abdel Latif Intellectual Property and Technology Senior Programme Manager
Daniella Allam Intellectual Property Junior Programme Officer
Alessandro Marongiu Intern, Intellectual Property
Programme Team: International Trade Law
Marie Wilke International Trade Law Programme Officer
Matt Fleszar Intern, International Trade Law Programme
Programme Team: Regionalism
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Senior Associate
Maximiliano Chab Regionalism Programme Officer
Publications Team
Anja Halle Senior Editor and Editor, Bridges
Andrew Aziz Managing Editor, ICTSD Periodicals and Editor, Bridges Trade BioRes
Adriana Verdier Projects Manager, Chief Executive's Office and Managing Editor, Pontes
Kiranne Dévi Guddoy Managing Editor, Bridges Africa
Sofia Alicia Baliño Editor, Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
Jin Guan Associate Editor, Qiao
Simon Pelletier Intern, TNI / Passerelles
Karen Saez Intern, TNI / Passerelles
Madison J. Parrish Intern, Bridges Weekly
Brennan McCormick Intern, BioRes
Core Partners and External Collaborators
Perla Buenrostro Managing Editor, Puentes
Carlos Murillo-Rodriguez Puentes Team
Natalia Shpilkovskaya Managing Editor, Mosty
Olga Ponizova Mosty Team
Cheikh Tidiane Dieye Passerelles Team
Bathie Ciss Passerelles Team
Michelle Ratton-Sanchez Pontes Team
Manuela Trindade Viana Pontes Team
Bruno Miranda Pontes Team
ZHANG Lei Qiao Team
FENG Luwei Qiao Team