InterAction Experts

Brian Greenberg

Focus Areas: Environment & Development, Food Security

Dr. Brian Greenberg is the Director of Sustainable Development at InterAction. His experience in rural development extends from sustainable agriculture and natural resource management to capacity building for NGOs and communities.

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Suzanne Kindervatter

Focus Area: Gender Equality

Dr. Suzanne Kindervatter, Vice President who heads InterAction's Strategic Impact Team. She oversees InterAction’s work on priority international development issues, gender integration and women’s empowerment, and documenting InterAction member field activities and technical experience from the field.

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Sarah Sladen

Focus Area: Youth in Development

Sarah Sladen, InterAction's Manager for International Youth Development, manages the Alliance for International Youth Development (AIYD), a community of practice and advocacy force of leading U.S.-based youth and development organizations.

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Laia Griñó

Focus Areas: Transparency, Accountability, Impact

Laia Griñó is the Manager of Transparency, Accountability and Results at InterAction. She is responsible for data quality and standards for NGO Aid Map, and also manages InterAction’s Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Working Group.

Julie Montgomery

Focus Area: Mapping Technologies & Learning

Julie Montgomery is the Director for Innovation and Learning at InterAction. She currently leads InterAction’s NGO Aid Map initiative, and has worked on numerous gender mainstreaming initiatives that include an e-learning course on gender and humanitarian emergencies.

Elizabeth Bellardo

Focus Area: Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Disaster-Affected People

Elizabeth Bellardo is the Senior Program Manager of Disaster Response at InterAction. She works with members on the prevention and response to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) of beneficiaries and leads InterAction's protection mainstreaming work.

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Joel Charny 

Focus Areas: Humanitarian Response, Impact of Counter-Terror Regulations on Humanitarian Action

Joel Charny, as Vice President for Humanitarian Policy and Practice, is responsible for leading InterAction’s work on humanitarian response, which involves engaging with the U.S. government, the United Nations, and member non-governmental organizations on both practical and policy matters. 

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Mohamed Hilmi

Focus Area: Shelter & Settlements

Mohamed Hilmi is the Senior Coordinator and Technical Specialist for Shelter and Settlements at InterAction. A humanitarian shelter and reconstruction specialist, he currently manages the humanitarian Shelter and Settlement Working Group at InterAction, to collectively improve the collaboration, capacity and practice of stakeholders who respond to humanitarian disasters and crises.

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Jenny McAvoy

Focus Area: Protection of Civilians in Conflict and UN Integrated Missions

Jenny McAvoy is the Director of Protection. 

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Patricia McIlreavy

Focus Areas: Humanitarian Policy, UN Humanitarian Reform

Patricia McIlreavy is the Senior Director of Humanitarian Policy at InterAction. She is responsible for representing InterAction member interests within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Working Group and its subsidiary bodies. 

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Caroline Nichols

Focus Area: UN Humanitarian Reform

Caroline Nichols is the Senior Program Manager of Humanitarian Policy. She assists InterAction in advocating for a stronger NGO voice and greater influence within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, the body responsible for inter-agency coordinated response for humanitarian assistance.

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Basile Pissalidis

Focus Area: Security for Humanitarian Workers

Basile Pissalidis heads InterAction’s Security Unit (SU) as the Director of Security. He is responsible for supporting and strengthening the security community and its ability to protect staff in the field. In this capacity he works closely with Interaction’s Security Advisory Group.

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Julien Schopp

Focus Area: Humanitarian Response, particularly in Africa and the Middle East

Julien Schopp is the Director of Humanitarian Practice. He supports humanitarian emergency responses and contributes to the improvement of humanitarian practice on behalf of the network’s members. 

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Lindsay Coates

Focus Areas: Civil Society Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and Civil Liberties

Lindsay Coates is the Executive Vice President for InterAction and also heads the Public Policy and Communications Team.

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Erin Jeffery

Focus Areas: Global Health, WASH

Erin Jeffery is InterAction's Advocacy and International Development Coordinator. She leads InterAction’s international development policy and advocacy efforts related to global health, water, sanitation and hygiene issues, and manages the WASH and Integrating Health in Relief and Development (IHRD) working groups.  

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Jeremy Kadden

Focus Area: Budget & Appropriations

Jeremy Kadden is the Senior Legislative Manager for InterAction, covering budget and appropriations. He works with members, the administration and Congress to ensure robust U.S. foreign aid funding, and pushes for specific priorities in the humanitarian, relief and development arenas.

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Katie Lee

Focus Area: Food Security & Agriculture, Climate & Environment

Katie Lee is the Advocacy & Policy Coordinator for International Development at InterAction. She leads international development policy and advocacy efforts with a focus on food security/agriculture and climate/environment issues.

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Mark Lotwis

Focus Areas: Budget & Appropriations, Aid Reform & Effectiveness

Mark Lotwis, as Senior Director of Public Policy, directs InterAction’s public policy team, working closely with the senior policy leadership of InterAction members to shape important policy decisions on humanitarian relief and long-term development issues. 

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John Ruthrauff

Focus Area: Advocacy

John Ruthrauff is InterAction's Director of International Advocacy. He currently works with an alliance of NGOs advocating on the G8 and G20 Summits. He also handles InterAction's work with the World Bank and provides advocacy training for members.

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