Margherita Cittadino

Margherita is a multidisciplinary professional, vision facilitator and project manager in the field of social impact and of sustainability integration in the business.

She is part of a pool of expert technicians for Italy National Plan for Recovery and Resilience for the digitization, monitoring and performance of public institutions to increase administrative capabilities, digitize and simplify local management processes.

Margherita has almost twenty years of experience for the community growth, experienced in planning and management control in the Public Administration of the State Property and in Amnesty International Italy.

In addition, she leads strategy development and fundraising projects, workshop and educational training for small non-profit organizations, measurement and sustainability reporting for Foundation and NGO. Founder of a start-up company with a sustainable impact and benefit purpose, towards the circular economy.

She has Circular Re-Thinking training at Trentino Sviluppo e Terra Institute Rovereto Berlin, Masters in Management of Social Enterprises, Non Profit and Cooperatives at SDA Bocconi, Master's Degree in Engineering at UNINA Italy.

Juan Posada-Burbano

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.

Amara Bains

Amara is a futures-focussed humanitarian and development practitioner with more than 20 years’ experience. Currently, her efforts are directed to utilising an understanding of complex adaptive systems, in particular the emerging field of anthro-complexity, as well as a development as freedom and feminist lens to reflect on the state of aid and development. She is undertaking a PhD on community participation in artificial intelligence for social good with respect to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Amara joined the IARAN fellowship to benefit from the collective intelligence of the fellowship as she investigates the implications of the fourth industrial revolution on humanitarian aid and development, the localisation agenda and decolonisation of aid.

Marie-Agnès Tur

Marie-Agnès is a humanitarian practitioner, who has been working in different post-crisis contexts, mainly as field coordinator, in charge, amongst others, of strategy development (exit strategies and long-term ones) and network facilitation. After having worked for 3 years in ex-Yugoslavia, dealing with peace-building and peace prevention issues, she decides to strengthen her theoretical background and take time to think about her experience to improve her field skills. She studies the "sociology of conflicts" and works as a researcher at the Peace Research Center of the Catholic University of Paris for 2 years. She is convinced that the research and humanitarian fields should work more closely together.

She therefore decides to go back to the field and continues ensuring that research is taken into account and used in the projects over the years she spends abroad. Back to Paris, she works as a Desk Officer, and then Director of Operations at the French Red Cross. She was then asked to facilitate the participatory development of the 10 years strategy of the international action of this organization. She identifies useful resources at the IARAN and develops her skills and the ones of her organization in prospective strategy. She is still supporting the work in this field.

Her research topics and work are focusing on enhancing the capacity and the role of national organisations in their country and towards international actors based on her long-term experience with the 2 largest international networks (Caritas and the Red Cross). She is also very much involved in change management and social impact evaluation. She has published a book on evaluating the impact of a peace-building projects.