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