Silke Pietzsch

Senior Researcher

Region: Global

Miriam Silke Pietzsch is an independent consultant specialising in climate programming, loss and damage, and disaster risk management, with over 20 years of experience across Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, and beyond. She has provided senior technical and advisory support to FAO, WFP, Action Against Hunger, Oxfam, and MSF across food security, nutrition, anticipatory action, shock-responsive social protection, and climate finance mechanisms including GCF, GEF, and the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage. She holds a Master of International Public Health from Maastricht University and an MSc in Human Nutrition from the University of Kiel, and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and humanitarian knowledge platforms.

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Researchers

Kristi Mahrt

Development Economist

Dr. Rebecca Pradeilles

Senior Researcher

Jeremy Colin

WASH Specialist

Joseph Goeb

Agricultural Economist

Projects: DIKODA

Dr. Moses Ngari

Biostatistician & Epidemiologist

Projects: DIKODA, Mercy Corps

Dr Carrie Ngongo

Epidemiologist

Dr Natasha Lelijveld

Senior Nutritionist

Dr Jody Harris

Senior Researcher

Teresia Machari

Researcher

Amal A. Abed

Nutrition, WASH, Health Education, and MEAL Program and Research Expert

Projects: DIKODA

Penny Dutton

WASH Expert and Social Specialist

Projects: DIKODA

Joana Forte

WASH Expert

Projects: DIKODA

Rebecca Brooks

Research Assistant

Projects: ACF, DIKODA, Mercy Corps

Dr Mari Manger

Deputy Director

Projects: DIKODA, FAO

Kristie Smith

Head of Program and Partnership

Erica Kunkio

Research assistant

Projects: DIKODA

Chiara Cresta

Researcher

Projects: DIKODA, FAO

Caroline Favas

Program Expert and Researcher

Projects: DIKODA

Elizabeth Whelan

Nutrition Consultant

Natalia Kakabadze

Expert in Finance and Economics

Naomi Klaver

Volunteer

Dr Sophie Goudet

Managing Director

Megan Stanley

Researcher

Projects: FAO
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Dr Emily Rousham

Senior Researcher Consultant

Projects: FAO
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Dr Emma Haycraft

Senior Researcher Consultant

Projects: FAO

David W. Wambui

Data Analyst

Projects: FAO
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Professor Paula Griffiths

Senior Researcher Consultant

Projects: FAO

Cori Park

Graphic designer

Dr Carolyn Imelda Auma

Researcher Consultant

Projects: FAO

Damith Chandrasenage

Data Analyst

Projects: DIKODA

R. Danielle Chekaraou

Social and Behavior Change Consultant

Projects: SEQUA

Dr Ursula Truebswasser

Researcher food system

Projects: DIKODA
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Dr Heather Ohly

Research Fellow & Research Consultant

Dr Ana Irache

Researcher

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