Fellows

Concord staff and fellows come from diverse professional and personal backgrounds and bring a variety of experiences, skills, approaches and competencies to the table. Common for them all is that they have been handpicked by Concord based on personal experiences with their work, documented past performance and exceptionally positive reviews from partners and clients. Concord maintains a network of outstanding advisors, consultants and analysts around the world from which a team can be assembled to work on almost every imaginable assignment aimed at supporting efforts to sustain peace and enable recovery and development in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

 

Core Staff

Number of Fellows

Intern at Concord Consulting. BA in English Language and International Studies, Aalborg Univeristy. Currently attends the interdisciplinary Master Programme in Development and International Relations at Aalborg University.

Helen Tesfazion

Managing director and initiator of Concord Consulting. International affairs advisor, senior analyst and occasional talking head.

Kristoffer Nilaus Tarp

 Fellows

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Analysis and research ()
Capacity assessments and development ()
Civil society engagement and strengthening ()
Conflict, situation and political economy analysis ()
Curriculum development and training ()
Designing and managing multi-stakeholder processes ()
Dialogue and reconciliation processes ()
Disaster response and resilience-building operations ()
Engaging marginalized groups ()
Good governance and the Rule of Law ()
Human rights and protection ()
Humanitarian responses, mechanisms and programmes ()
Monotoring, evalution and impact assessment ()
Peace-building, peace operations and conflict sensitivity ()
Planning, strategy, programming and project development ()
Policy and concept development ()
Protracted crisis and humanitarian to development transitions ()
Public financial management and civil service reform ()
Security sector reform and international humanitarian law ()
Strategic reviews ()
Sustainable development ()
Violence prevention and reduction ()

Development economist with more than eight years of experience in academics and research.

Abdurohman Hussien

Program manager. Iraq and the Kurdish region civil society expert. Conflict transformation and democratization specialist.

Ala Ali

Columnist, editor and researcher. Expert on global CVE policy and challenges, radicalisation and terrorism.

Arsla Jawaid

Executive Director of Samir Kassir Foundation – SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom. Extensive experience working in Lebanon, Amman, Palestine and Syria.

Ayman Mhanna

International human rights lawyer expert in communication, research and program management for migration, gender equality and sustainable development.

Camilla Lai

Carlos Centeno is an independent consultant. He specializes in Humanitarian Innovation, Project Design, Post-Disaster Resilience Building Operations, Strategic Reviews

Carlos Centeno

Research Associate and independent consultant. Specialist in governance, rights and gender in fragile states. 15 years of research and policy analysis. Extensive field experience in Asia, Africa and MENA.

Clare Castillejo

Expert in international humanitarian and human rights law.

Conor Foley

Assistant professor of international development. Expert on management and public administration in the developing world.

Dan Honig

Applied anthropologist; research, analysis and policy development. Expertise on conflict analysis, conflict management and peacebuilding; forced migration, refugee-host community relations.

Diana Felix da Costa

Ph.D. In psychology. Executive director of Neem foundation, Nigeria. Expert on preventing violent extremism.

Fatima Akilu

Vice-Chairman of the regional chapter of the Danish UN Association, lecturer and consultant. Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Extensive experience working for the UN in Asia, Africa, Middle-East, America and Europe.

Finn Reske-Nielsen

Major. General. Former NATO commander. Advisor to the Danish ministry of defence. Expert on technology and innovation in UN peacekeeping.

Ib Bager

Leadership and management consultant. Expert on health and education in Africa.

Ida Grum

Research and policy analyst. Expertise on youth peacebuilding and child protection in transitional and fragile states.

Irena Grizelj

Researcher and executive director for the platform for dialogue and peace. Expert on land issues, peacebuilding and epidemic responses.

Jimmy Shilue

Child protection consultant. Thirty years of experience working in child protection, development and humanitarian relief in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific.

Joachim Theis

Peacebuilding researcher. Expert on conflict prevention, diplomacy, policy advocacy and conflict-sensitive business practice.

Jonathan Rozen

Journalist, editor and director of africaonair. Expert on African media and culture in relation to security and development.

Joseph Warungu

Independent governance consultant advising on stabilisation and growth strategies in transition contexts.

Juana de Catheu

Senior consultant on policy and programme development, conflict-sensitivity and peacebuilding.

Karim Merchant

International peacebuilding professional. Human rights, rule of law, democratic governance, peacebuilding, mediation and gender equality expert.

Katinka Patscher

Expert on development cooperation, evaluation, displacement and humanitarian assistance in fragile states.

Kimi Hibri Pedersen

Major General. Advisor on military affairs. Former UN force commander and Snr. NATO officer. Military capacity dev. expert.

Kurt Mosgaard

United Nations Expert - Humanitarian, Peacekeeping, Development and Political expertise in HQ's and in conflict/post-conflict contexts (Latin America and Africa).

Maria Fuentenebro

Expert, intellectual entrepreneur and technical expert on methodology and governance measurements.

Marie Laberge

Senior Public Policy and Communications Consultant with extensive experience in public policy, economic and political analysis

Mathilde Burnouf

Political economist specialised in aid management, data and budget integration, transparency and governance processes.

Matthew Geddes

Natalia Mirimanova is a conflict resolution scholar-practitioner and consultant with the UN, OSCE and other international organisations in the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Western Balkans, and Cyprus.

Natalia Mirimanova

Evaluation expert and development economist. Specialist on survey and evaluation design, program and policy evaluation.

Nina Blöndal

Senior Policy Advisor and independent consultant. Specialist in violence, conflict, fragile states and peace-building.

Rachel Locke

Advisor and editor with ICAN and WASL. Expert on Egypt and political dynamics in the Middle East.

Rana Allam

Expert on humanitarian response, forced displacement, and early recovery

Reem Alsalem

M&E Advisor, focussed on Third Party Monitoring and Theory of Change development.

Richard Harrison

Experienced human rights advisor with a strong background in international security.

Romain Lefebvre

Seasoned development professional with experience from the forefront of some of the largest conflicts.

Sadia Bundgaard

Senior economist and consultant. Research and practical advisory work on public financial management and governance.

Sam Moon

Published researcher. Expert on natural resources, peace-building, and governance in West Africa.

Samuel G Toe

Senior analyst and expert on peace and development. Thought leader on fragility and the peacebuilding architecture.

Sarah Hearn

Project management specialist with extensive experience in project design, planning and implementation support.

Shakar Arbab

Senior advisor. Expert on cooperation between, with, and within fragile states. New deal specialist.

Siafa Kpowor Hage

International affairs professional. Expert on conflict analysis and -transformation specialising in Myanmar.

Stephen Gray

Ph.D. in peace and conflict studies. Served as deputy chief of PEACE III and commissioner for TJRC in Kenya.

Tecla Wanjala

An aspired entrepreneur, professional and an academic, with a strong academic and professional background and other expertise in the areas of Project management, Information Systems and Financial Accounting.

Tshepo Magoma

Researcher and journalist. Specialising in forced migration and human rights.

Yuko Narushima