Team
Our Extended Team
All the Team
Sabina Vigani
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Sabina is a passionate, dependable, and genuine change catalyst who is unwavering in her commitment to quality and ethical standards. Her 20 years of professional experience spans across government, civil society, and philanthropy. Her areas of expertise are international education, early childhood development, democracy and elections, human rights. In her different roles, Sabina has gained extensive experience in convening and facilitating multi-stakeholders’ partnerships, as well as managing complex programs. Sabina holds a master’s degree in international relations, an executive education certificate on scaling early childhood development interventions, and a certificate on transpersonal leadership. Professional proficiency in French and English, Italian mother tongue. Based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Olaf Hahn
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Olaf is a dynamic non-for-profit professional with strong managerial and broad thematic and geographical experience. Strong at building relationships, he is motivated by contributing to positive change. His areas of expertise include education, migration & integration, climate change and civil society. During his assignments with world-class philanthropic organisations, Olaf has harvested extensive experience in all aspects of foundation strategy, programme, and management. Professional proficiency in English, French, German, and Polish. Based in the Greater Zurich Area, Switzerland.
We work with a network of seasoned professionals
Michaelene Welsh
Resource mobilization and positioning
Michaelene has provided programme planning and design, strategic positioning and fundraising expertise across sectors as diverse as education, healthcare, environmental conservation, humanitarian and development. She enjoys applying the knowledge, skill and experience acquired working as part of in-house leadership teams for 25 years to consultancy work across the globe. A wandering Scot and Suissesse (Francophone) she still cannot make up her mind about where she prefers to live but does know that working with great people the world over is a huge privilege.
Nora Marketos
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Alessandra Bianco
Senior Expert
Alessandra is a coordinator of large-scale programs with 15 years’ experience in International Development, Education, Human Rights Protection, Mental Health and Psycho-Social support programs in East and West Africa and Europe. A senior expert in Early Childhood Development, she has implemented post-crisis and non-emergency programs, supported governments to scale interventions.
Alessandra’s areas of expertise include project management, technical assistance, service coordination. She has a consistent professional experience as an educational and clinical psychologist for children, families and survivors of violence. Her background is in Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Science, Human Rights Approach to Development Cooperation, project management and coordination.
Sosthène Guei
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Mbalo Ndiaye
Sustainability expert
Mbalo is the Founder and President of BYG Partnership Managers, a West Africa-based advisory agency assisting companies, investors, governments, development agencies, non-governmental organizations to develop strategies and investments in sustainable agricultural value chains. He has over 20 years of experience as developer, fundraiser and manager of large scale agricultural and rural development programs.
Mbalo has worked in the cocoa sector for over 10 years, first as the Director of Cocoa Livelihoods Program of the World Cocoa Foundation. Prior to this position, Mbalo worked as Agricultural Advisor for the West Africa office of the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, and as program director for various international NGOs such as Catholic Relief Services, Plan International, Counterpart International and ENDA Tiers Monde.
Nicola Dean
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Maura Hannon
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