Juan Posada-Burbano is an international consultant in project management. Posada has more than 10 years of experience conducting needs assessments, writing grants, monitoring project implementation, and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, from local organizations and communities, to governments and international cooperation agencies. Posada was formerly the National Protection and Humanitarian Assistance Coordinator for Save the Children in Colombia, and served in the European Commission Humanitarian Office for South America, overseeing projects on Protection and Humanitarian Assistance, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Education in Emergencies in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Currently, he advices humanitarian NGOs in project implementation in Colombia, and oversees a research project in the Middle East, led by a US-based university consortium, to support and restore cultural and traditional livelihood practices among minority groups targeted by extremist violence. He also conducts his own independent research on the role of civil society organizations as development agents, locally-led capacity development, and knowledge co-production in humanitarian-development settings.
