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Staff Directory
Mohamed Albutmeh
Fellow, Middle East & North Africa Program
Mohamed joined BIC in May 2008 as a fellow member with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Program. He works with the MENA Manager and Associate to fulfill the 2008 program.
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Soren Ambrose
Manager, Africa Program
Soren Ambrose joined BIC as its Africa Program Manager in October 2007. His interest in the IFIs was sparked during his graduate studies on Nigerian literature and politics at the University of Chicago.
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Benjamin Bryan
Assistant, Information Services Program
Ben joined BIC in September 2007 as an Assistant in the Information Services Program and works to coordinate the outreach and communications activities of BIC. Prior to joining BIC, Ben interned with the Washington, DC office of the SHARE Foundation where he helped to promote economic justice, democracy and sustainability alternatives in El Salvador.
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Azalea Carisch
Intern, Policy Program
Azalea joined BIC in May 2007 as the Policy Intern. She has a variety of responsibilities that include monitoring policy reviews, extractive and energy projects, and transparency issues at the IFIs.
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Alvin Carlos
Manager, Finance and Operations
Alvin has been managing BIC s finances and operations since December 2005. He has previously supported BIC's work on ADB and World Bank projects and policies in Asia.
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Binta Ceesay
Executive Assistant
Binta joined BIC as the Executive Assistant in February 2008 and helps to support the Executive Director in his daily tasks. Binta received her Bachelors in International Relations Political Science from Michigan State University, majoring in African studies.
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Chad Dobson
Executive Director
Chad Dobson joined the Bank Information Center (BIC) as its new Executive Director on December 10, 2007. Chad founded BIC in 1987 and was its Executive Director until 1996.
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Amy Ekdawi
Manager, Middle East and North Africa Program
Amy joined the Bank Information Center in May 2007 as a Program Manager for the new Middle East and North Africa Program. Before joining BIC she was Co-Director of People Advocacy.
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Jelson Garcia
Regional Coordinator, Mekong/Southeast Asia, Asia Program
Jelson Garcia joins BIC as the Regional Coordinator for Mekong and Southeast Asia. A Filipino national, Jelson has previously worked for a number of local and international groups, which facilitated his close interaction with indigenous communities, federations of farmers, rural workers and fishermen and the demobilized combatants.
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Nadia Hadad
Coordinator, Indonesia Project, Mekong/Southeast Asia, Asia Program
Based in Jakarta, Nadia joined BIC s Asia Program as the Indonesia Project Coordinator in September 2007. Prior to BIC, Nadia was with the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) for seven years.
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George Holliday
Manager, Europe and Central Asia Program
George joins BIC from the Trade Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, where he specialized on foreign economic relations of countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China. In his five years at the OECD, he was responsible for conducting research and facilitating a dialogue on trade and economic issues between representatives of countries in the region and OECD member countries.
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Bruce Jenkins
Director, Policy Program
Bruce is currently BIC s Acting Executive Director. As BIC's Policy Director (since July 2001), Bruce concentrates on issues of social and environmental sustainability, access to information, and accountability at the multilateral development banks (MDBs).
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Joshua Klemm
Associate, Africa Program
Joshua joined BIC s Africa Program in April 2006 after spending a year and a half with the local Transparency International chapter in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the National Accountability Group. He worked with NAG from the time its office began operations, heading its research team while training the local staff on project development, report writing and basic computer literacy.
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Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs
Consultant, Europe and Central Asia Program
Heike joined BIC in 2004 as the Manager of the Europe and Central Asia program and since 2006 she has been a consultant to BIC. Heike has worked for more than fourteen years in the development and environment fields for both the private and nonprofit sectors and has consulted to a wide range of organizations, including NGOs, the US government, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Vince McElhinny
Manager, Latin America and Caribbean Program
Vince brings fifteen years of research and advocacy experience in Latin America specializing in trade, integration and rural development policy. He worked for three years at InterAction managing an NGO advocacy program around the Inter-American Development Bank, and has consulted widely on participation, transparency and accountability issues related to the IDB, World Bank and sub-regional banks in Latin America.
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Silvia Molina
Regional Coordinator, Latin America Program
Silvia Molina joins BIC as the Latin American Regional Coordinator. Silvia is responsible for promoting transparency at the multilateral development banks (MDBs), through civil society organizations (CSOs) in the region; supporting regional CSOs' advocacy campaigns; and promoting CSO participation in integration processes such as the Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA).
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Bhumika Muchhala
Associate, International Monetary Fund Program
Bhumika joined BIC in August 2007 as the Associate for the IMF Program. Previously, Bhumika was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she conceptualized and organized large-scale policy forums and conferences on development economics issues such as policy space and assessing the Asian financial crisis ten years after its onset.
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Nikki Reisch
Consultant, Africa Program
Nikki served as BIC's Africa Program Manager from November 2002-2007 and is currently working as a consultant with BIC. She has a background in international political economy and development.
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Srabani Roy
Coordinator, Information Services Program
Srabani joined BIC in July 2007 as the Coordinator for the Information Services Program. Srabani has a M.
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Ameen Sanad
Intern, Middle East & North of Africa Program
Ameen joined BIC in February 2008 as an intern with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Program. He works with the MENA Manager and Associate to fulfill the 2008 program workplan.
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Chonthicha Srisuk
Administrative/Finance Assistant, Mekong/Southeast Asia, Asia Program
Chonthicha joined BIC's Mekong office in August 2007 as the Administrative/Finance Assistant. She is also a graduate student at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University in the master's program in Educational Technology and Communications at the school of Educational Studies, and plans to complete her degree by the end of the year.
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Andrea Verdasco
Consultant, Latin America Program
Andrea joined BIC s Latin American Program in August 2007. Andrea's work at BIC focuses on collaborating specifically in the BICECA project working to promote environmental social accountability in the Andes- Amazon region.
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Mishka Zaman
Manager, Asia Program
Mishka joined BIC in February 2003 to work as Program Manager of the Asia Program. Originally from Peshawar, Pakistan, Mishka worked for a year at ActionAid-USA on their US-India Program and for six years at SUNGI Development Foundation-Pakistan as the Program Manager of its Advocacy Unit.
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Said Yakhyoev
Assistant, Europe and Central Asia Program
Said joined BIC in March 2008 as a Europe and Central Asia Program intern. Before joining BIC, Said completed a professional development program at the Aga Khan Foundation USA where he supported development projects in Central Asia.
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Sonia Zilberman
Consultant, Europe and Central Asia Program
Sonia joined BIC in 2007 as Program Associate for the Europe and Central Asia Program. Before joining BIC, she spent six months in The U.
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