Our people
NRGI engages high-performing professionals with expertise in global development, economics, law and operations. Meet our teams:
Senior Management

Suneeta Kaimal
President and Chief Executive Officer

Luis M. García
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Patrick Heller
Chief Program Officer

Ana Carolina González Espinosa
Senior Director for Programs

Liz McGrath
Managing Director
Latin America

Juan Luis Dammert
Latin America Director

Fernanda Ballesteros
Mexico Country Manager

Anna Cartagena
Communications Officer, Latin America

Melissa Marengo
Senior Program Officer

Fernando Patzy
Andean Manager

Juliana Peña Niño
Latin America Senior Officer

Ricardo Troncoso
Mexico Officer
Middle East and North Africa

Laury Haytayan
Middle East and North Africa Director

Wissem Heni
Tunisia Country Manager

Hanen Keskes
Middle East and North Africa Senior Officer

Abir Yahyaoui
Tunisia Officer
Sub-Saharan Africa

Nafi Chinery
Africa Director

Alex Ampaabeng
Senior Economic Analyst

Abdoulaye Ba
Africa Data and Research Officer

Paul Bagabo
Senior Officer

Mohamed Cisse
Guinea Program Associate

Papa Daouda Diene
Africa Economic Analyst

Mamady Diango
Guinea Project Assistant

Aida Diop
Senegal Senior Program Officer

Tengi George-Ikoli
Senior Officer

Denis Gyeyir
Africa Senior Program Officer

Theonestina Kassiga
Program Associate
Ann-Mary Kusiima Otedor
Uganda Program Associate

Moses Kulaba
East Africa Regional Manager

Asna Ndao
Program Associate, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (USAID TRACES)

Silas Olan'g
Africa Energy Transition Advisor

Angela Puplampu
Administrative Assistant

Sophia Rwegellera
Tanzania Senior Officer

Ndiaye Sarr Sylla
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist (USAID TRACES)

Mamadou Seck
Regional Manager for Francophone West and Central Africa

Ousmane Touré
Communications Officer (USAID TRACES)
Roger Vutsoro
Democratic Republic of the Congo Country Manager
Asia-Pacific

Dorjdari Namkhaijantsan
Mongolia Manager
Zoljargal Naranbaatar
Mongolia Officer

Solongo Otgonbayar
Mongolia Program Assistant
Governance

Matthieu Salomon
Acting Governance Programs Director | Lead, Anticorruption

Erica Westenberg
Governance Programs Director

Susannah Fitzgerald
Governance Officer

Antonio Hill
Advisor

Phesheya Nxumalo
Program Assistant

Robert Pitman
Senior Governance Officer
Aaron Sayne
Lead, Domestic Energy Transition
Legal & Economic

Amir Shafaie
Legal and Economic Programs Director

William Davis
Senior Economic Analyst

Andrea Furnaro
Policy Analyst

David Manley
Lead Economic Analyst – Energy Transition

Thomas Scurfield
Africa Senior Economic Analyst

Nicola Woodroffe
Senior Legal Analyst
Capacity Development

Lucain Nyassi Tchakounte
Capacity Development Officer

Matteo Molineris
Capacity Development Officer
Communications

Lee Bailey
Communications Director

Gabriela Flores Zavala
Communications Strategy Consultant

Alexandra Malmqvist
Senior Communications Officer

Alice Perepyolkina
Communications Associate
Fundraising

Laura Whitwell
Fundraising Director

Sarah Backstrand
Fundraising Associate

Camila Gomez-Perales
Fundraising Manager
Operations

Martin James
International Finance and Compliance Director

Helen Suwannawongse
Human Resources Director

Noelah Arhalimba Mushaga
Finance and Administration Associate
Sandra Ávila
Latin America Office Manager

Agatha Faidoo
International Human Resources Manager

Victoria Iyobhebhe
Human Resources Officer

Munyaradzi J. Mutambanengwe
Finance and Administrative Associate

Marie Mbathio Ndiaye
Finance and Administrative Assistant

Cedric Mouna Poughue
Finance and Compliance Coordinator (Francophone Africa)

Emmanuel Niina
Africa Finance Officer
Edelyne Paul
Accounting and Human Resources Support Officer
Senior Management Support
Emma Dahmani
Program and Administrative Assistant

Aye Kyithar Swe
Chief of Staff

Jennifer Wilkinson
Board Liaison and Program Assistant