She also managed the Leadership Development Department where she created and implemented strategy for membership programs for 1,000 political and foreign policy professionals across the country. Earlier in her career, Sidney worked in strategic government relations, contributing to comprehensive political strategy for international clients in the Middle East and Africa. Sidney holds a master’s in global politics from the London School of Economics and a dual bachelor’s from American University in Washington, DC.

Raphael has extensive knowledge and experience in public policy, international development, political economy, governance, and human rights. In 2013, the Global Diplomatic Forum named him as one of the Global Young Diplomats. He holds a master’s in public policy from Duke University, and is a Ford Foundation Fellow.

Before founding Nomanini, Vahid was an associate with McKinsey & Company where he served clients in Africa, South East Asia, North America and Europe. He has worked on both strategy and implementation projects with clients in a wide range of industries, including: consumer goods, state-owned utilities, petrochemicals and telecommunications. Before McKinsey, Vahid worked in an industrial design studio in South Africa focused primarily on consumer technology design for Africa. He has also founded an engineering project house.

He is an invited columnist for the BRICS Post and a full member of Scientific Committee, Osservatorio Asia of Italy. His research interests include Chinese foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations and Indo-Pacific Asia security. He has contributed analysis to dozens of national and international publications including The New York Times, The Project Syndicate, The Diplomat, People's Daily, and Global Times.

From 2008 to 2011, she worked for the Americas Society/Council of the Americas as director of public policy programs, where she was responsible for maintaining the institutional relations with high-level government officials throughout Latin America as well as conceiving, planning and executing private and public programming in New York and the region. Alejandra holds a master’s in global affairs from New York University and a bachelor’s in anthropology from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá.

Prior to this position, he worked for Caribbean Development Research Services as an assistant researcher, conducting government and business polls throughout the region. Mr. McCollam holds a joint bachelor’s from University of the West Indies Barbados and University of California, Berkeley in political science and history and a master’s in public policy and fiscal decentralisation from Central European University.

Prior to this position, Estibaliz served for five years as the export manager of an Electro Medical Equipment manufacturing company. Previously, she worked as a market analyst in the Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in Paris. Estibaliz studied law at the University of Deusto and has a master’s degree in international trade and business internationalization.

He has previously worked as coordinator at the Eurocenter for Business Cooperation at Intituto Euvaldo Lodi, in Brasília, Brazil. Thiago has also worked as visiting consultant at the Insituto de Comercio Exterior (ICEX), in Madrid, Spain in 2006, and at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) office in Paris in 2005.

She has held post-doctoral research positions at Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is affiliated to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy and a visiting professor at Sciences-Po Grenoble. She has published several articles, edited volumes, and book chapters and is a regular contributor to the Brazilian press.

He holds a TRIUM Global Executive MBA, which is an alliance between New York University (NYU), the London School of Economics (LSE), and Hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC Paris). He also holds a master’s of science in statistics. Since 2005, Hervé has been a lecturer at the National Advanced School of Statistics and Applied Economics in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.