Ahmad Ali Sidiqy is a Civil Engineer Working with RIDF Project of KfW, where he is managing the construction project implementation, besides he is teaching project management with Afghanistan Project Management Center (APMC).

In 2019 Mr. Sidiqy completed his master's degree in Civil Engineering from China in and received two outstanding student awards. During the study in China, He was a member of the Academic department of the Student Union. After he graduated from Balkh University in 2010 he has worked with HELVETAS Swiss Interco-operation in developing the projects for two years and completed more than 40 projects of Improving Livelihood in Rural Community (ILRC). From 2013 to 2016 he worked with Aga Khan Foundation – Afghanistan in KfW projects funded by KfW bank of Germany.

Sidiqy has Certified PMD Pro Level 1 and has 3 certifications in CCNA, IT, and Chinese language. He Has participated in many development and management workshops and training which helped him to be a successful person in development project implementation.

With 19 years of professional experience in an international development environment, Dov had been contributing with PM4NGO’s since 2010. With his consolidated knowledge in strategic planning process management, business modelling, complex portfolio management, theory of change, impact assessments, and technological innovation Dov had been providing advice and consulting to significant organizations such as Plan International, ChildFund, World Vision, Aflatoun and more.

Today Dov’s focus is to promote Environmental and Social transformation across supply chains with his role as Country Head for Brazil within the Earthworm Foundation. Beside this role, Dov continues to train and prepare professionals for the Project Dpro Certification with PM4NGOs training Partner Quintessência.

Rami Kaibni is a certified Senior Program and Project Management Professional, PMO Consultant, Career Coach and Professional Development Mentor holding a bachelor’s degree in Structural Engineering and over 19 years of hands-on experience in Program/Project Management, Construction Management, Business Analysis and Professional Development.

Rami is also the Founder/Executive Coach at RMK Coaching besides working as a full time Project Management Consultant with a consulting firm out of British Columbia, Canada and holding multiple key volunteer positions with global organizations.

Over the years, Rami earned more than 50 Credentials in the management and business fields and is also a member of many prestigious global organizations of which the Project Management Institute (PMI), the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) and PMO Global Alliance (PMOGA) are a few of them. Over the course of his career, he worked with reputable organizations and clients both nationally and internationally and been deployed on high profile projects across the Arab Gulf Region, Middle East, China and currently in Vancouver, Canada.

On a personal note, Rami is also a volunteer member of the Global Goodwill Ambassadors Foundation and a named Global Goodwill Ambassador (GGA) for Canada.

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Dr. Charles Tong-Lit LEUNG is Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Administration Programme at a university in Zhuhai, where the only Chinese Mainland city connecting with Hong Kong and Macau by land. Before working as full-time faculty, he served as a front-line social worker plus in various supervisory and managerial positions of non-profit organizations across the regions of Guangdong-Hongkong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). In addition to the social work background, he holds the qualifications of accredited mediator (Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Kyoto) and professional project manager (IPMP; PMD Pro).

Charles has been applying the ideas of systems thinking in his academic and professional initiatives since the 2010s. For example, he developed a mechanism of social program evaluation for facilitating the deliberations among stakeholders throughout the process. He is now ambitious to promote the utilization of project management knowledge in non-profit and social development sectors across Chinese societies.

Lisandro is Chair Professor of International Relations and Coordinator of Master in Social Project Management at University of El Salvador, his research focuses on development aid dynamics in global sustainability governance and SDGs localisation. He has over 15 years of experience as independent evaluator and development practitioner in Central America and Spain with exposures to work for several development agencies as USAID, U.S. Department of State (DOS), Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), LuxDevelopment, UNICEF, IDB and EU. Similarly, he has collaborated with several international NGOs such as WorldVision (WV), Spanish Red Cross, Brücke Le pont (Switzerland), Cordaid (Netherlands) and Brot für die Welt (Germany). Moreover, since 2014, Lisandro is the country representative to El Salvador office of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC); an U.S. private, non-profit organization that seek to expand access to justice and improve quality of services through technical assistance, training, and technology.

He holds a PhD in International Development of University Jaume I and a MA in International Cooperation and Management of NGOs of University of Santiago de Compostela. Besides, Lisandro holds a MSc in Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility and BA in International Relations. Lisandro is passionate about using scientific evidence and creativity to design social development programs.

In addition, Dr. Perez is Certified Educator for Microsoft (MCE) and Google Certified Educator (GCE1), he has the Project Management for Development Professionals Certification (Project Dpro Foundation & Practitioner) and the Professional Certification in Public Management for Development (IDB).

Delia has been involved in activities with non-profit organizations for almost 20 years, supporting management processes, planning, evaluation and monitoring and management of human and financial resources.

She started her relationship with Humentum as a volunteer in translation and adaptation of training materials into Spanish, and then structuring contents for virtual training with the GEPAL Project. Then started as cofacilitator of face-to-face and virtual training processes, in the PMD Pro methodology in several countries of Latin America, such as Panama, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil and Guatemala, as well as consultancy processes.

She is a Business Administrator, with an MBA. in entrepreneurship, and is certified in PMD Pro1, PMD Pro2 (Project Management for Development, levels 1 and 2), and Program DPro (Management of Development Programs). She is a founder member of Asociación Visión para el Desarrollo – ASOVID -, a partner institution of the GEPAL project (Project Management for Latin America) in Guatemala.

Mr. Mohammad Zeitoun is a seasoned development and humanitarian sector professional with over 14 years of experience. Mohammad holds a MSc in International Public Service Management from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois that focused on exploring holistic approaches to social problems and topics such as refugee management, sustainable development, poverty reduction, and the intersection between these topics and local, national, and international policies.

Complementing his education, Mohammad spent the early years of his career in the non-profit sector in Chicago, working with World Relief and Heartland Alliance, specializing in case management and mental health for refugee and asylum seekers resettled in the Chicagoland area.

Since 2011, Mohammad has been working as part of the Senior Leadership Team at Genome Training and Consulting, a firm in the MENA region focusing on providing capacity building and consulting services for the development and humanitarian sector.

In addition to his work with Genome, Mohammad is also active in the civil society sector, focusing efforts on cross-cutting themes in liberalism, democracy, and youth engagement. Currently, Mohammad serves as the Vice Chair for the Free Thought Forum (FTF) in Jordan, collaborating with international partners to provide awareness and advocacy for civil society engagement and liberalism. Mohammad is also an Associate with Humentum, providing facilitation and capacity building on Project Management for Development (PMD Pro).

Terver Kuegh’s work experience spans over 10 years in the international development sector with roles around developing and leading capacity building projects for several organizations in Nigeria and abroad. In 2017, a Social Learning project he led for Action Against Hunger Nigeria earned international recognition at the Learning Technology Award, in the UK. Terver is the 2017 Alan Harpham award recipient for his work in promoting project management in the international development sector.

Terver is associate of Humentum and Founder/CEO of Sabi Training & Consulting Limited, a Nigerian based company providing learning services for development organizations and social enterprises across Africa.

Dr. Irene Ciccarino is a management professor and researcher, and an expert in project management and sustainable development. Her professional and academic work contributes to strategies, policies, and investments aimed at social entrepreneurship and innovation. She is a Ph.D. in business management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and an M.Sc. in the same field from IBMC-RJ (Brazil). She also has a specialization in public policies for social equality, granted by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Two of her studies were awarded by CLACSO and EMES International Research Network. Nowadays, Dr. Ciccarino is a postdoc fellow at the ShareForest project to study participatory methodologies for public and stakeholder engagement in the protection and valorization of forests in Portugal funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. She is also a lecturer of project management classes in Masters at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (Portugal). She also helps local brands development and traditional product marketing as a fellow of the HOD company.

With over 20 years of management experience, she has worked in consultancy for public, private, and social economy clients, such as Petrobras, Transpetro, Capgemini, and Viva Rio. She contributed to public policies' elaboration, such as the employment and income axis of the “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” program and the creation of the Youth Reference Centers of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She developed projects Proximidades, Casas Vivas and Espaço Elos to support audiences of different age groups in situations of extreme social vulnerability and drug abuse. As a project manager in CUFA (Brazil), she coordinated the projects “Rebelião Cultural” in the high-security prison system and the TV program “Aglomerado”  to spot peripheral culture.

She is currently on the board of the Óbidos Social Innovation Hub (Portugal). She is also associated with the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB), UMAR, a historical Portuguese women-right union, Zebras United (USA), Donut Economics Action Lab (Global).

Dr. Ciccarino supports training and professional development under Project Dpro methodology by local partnerships within the Iberian academy and social economy.

Jesus E. (Nesty) Delgado-Morales is a Civil Engineer and Project Manager passionate about bringing ideas to viable and healthy projects, and bringing those projects to results that generate a real impact and fundamental changes; successfully implement strategy to promote continuous innovation and achieve true resilience in the communities and organizations I serve.

Nesty is enthusiastic about applying the best practices of engineering, exponential technologies, and the principles and methodologies of Project Management, Strategy Implementation, and Business Continuity to help our clients solve difficult problems, achieve the success of their projects, add value, and increase their readiness and their Organizational Resilience and Maturity.

After more than 20 years of professional practice, he is convinced that the only way to stay relevant in such a changing and challenging world is through continuous learning and accepting new challenges and responsibilities that force us to innovate, be agile, be flexible, and transform ourselves into better human beings; always enjoying the process while achieving these goals! Nesty is committed to sharing knowledge and lessons learned through education and professional development programs, and by being a powerful speaker and a mentor that inspires others to commit to excellence, to love the volunteer service, and to do their best for our communities to create a better world.

He is also de co-founder of the PM4PRR3 Academy (Project Management for Puerto Rico’s Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency Academy), an academic program that integrates and combines the Project and Program DPro Methodologies, the PMO Academy Courses and the Strategy Implementation Institute Course and Certification onto a Strategic Learning Roadmap for the development of the Project Management Profession.

Mohamed Ziyad is a 15+ years’ experienced development projects management specialist. He has managed projects in the area of Migration, Local Governance, Water and Sanitation, Capacity building for war effected community, Plantation worker’s rights, peace and reconciliation, combating human trafficking, language rights, democracy, gender mainstreaming, and strengthening government and civil society organization’s institutional development. He has worked with a number of International Non-Governmental Organizations.

Currently, He is the Programme lead at Centre for Development Research and Interventions and a founding Director of Centre for Social Solidarity. He holds bachelor in Language and Mass communication from Eastern University of Sri Lanka and LLB (Hons) from Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Further he is a holder of Diploma, Post Graduate Diploma and Masters in Human Rights form the University of Colombo. Currently, He is reading a Ph.D in International Relations at the University of Colombo. Ziyad as a social researcher has conducted researchers on Internally Displaced People, minority language rights as well as women victims of violence in Sri Lanka and COVID 19 Vs Women in local Politics.

Obidah Alsayed Ali is a specialist consultant in Program Management in development (Program DPro) and Project Management in development (Project DPro) with more than 10 years’ experience with multiple INGOs and NGOs in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Turkey, with more than 3000 training\facilitation hours. He holds a MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering, and a diploma in Hospital Management from Canada Global Centre.

He is certified in Program Management in development (Program DPro), Project Management in development (Project DPro 1&2).

Since 2011 he has worked on civil society networking, marginalized groups engagement, conflict resolution and mediation. He is a professional facilitator, practitioner, and trainer on Technical Skills such as Theory of Change (TOC), Program Management in development (Program DPro), Project Management in development (Project DPro), Good Governance, Curriculum Development, and Social Network Analysis (SNA), and on Soft Skills such as Dialogue Facilitation, Mediation, Advocacy, and Leadership.

He held the position of Operations/Region Director in multiple NGOs, having the responsibility for managing all organization programs inside and outside Syria to ensure the satisfaction of stakeholders including beneficiaries and donors.  Before that, he held the position CEO (Chief Executive Officer) for one of the biggest hospitals in Syria during the conflict, with around 400 employees.

Obidah is now a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering.

Said S. Said (Bawazir) is a programs manager at An-Nahl Trust Organization and Associate Consultants at NICE Tanzania with more than 17 years’ experience in conducting Leadership training for University and Secondary Schools Students, more than five years in humanitarian and development sector.

He is a professional facilitator, practitioner and trainer on Youth venture programs, Project Management in development sector (Project DPro), he is certified with PMD Pro (levels 1 and 2), Mentoring, Coaching and Learner Experience Facilitation in Community Leaders programs and currently is one of the directors of Helping Hand for Relief and Development in Tanzania which headquarters are in USA as well as director of Education for Africa which based in Tanzania.

Sîm-Yassah is a driven development professional with more than fifteen (15) years of experience in the international development sector for several organizations in Togo and abroad supporting strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, resource mobilization, partnership, capacity development and knowledge management.

Sîm-Yassah is a founder member of The Centre de Recherche, d’Etude et d’Appui Technique (CREAT), a non-profit organization in Togo that support capacity building of young and/or emerging evaluators and nonprofit organizations in project management, monitoring and evaluation.

Sîm-Yassah is certified in PMD Pro1 and has facilitated several face-to-face and virtual training sessions using the PMD Pro methodology.

He lives in Lome, Togo (West Africa), where he enjoys hobbies that include running, playing basketball, swimming and enjoying local food.

Hassan is the Executive Director in Bousla. He holds a BSc in Pharmacy from Kalamoon University and a diploma in Advanced Studies from the University of Geneva in Humanitarian Action (Designing Strategies and Projects for Humanitarian Action). Besides, Hassan holds a master of business administration at Marmara University.

He is a certified trainer in Program Management for the Development Sector (PgMD), Project Management for the Development Sector (PMD Pro 1&2), Remote management, The Sphere Project, and Quality & Accountability.

Hassan has ten years a humanitarian aid worker, designed and facilitated training & consultancies in a Project Management (Project DPro) and Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA) in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Turkey, and he has worked as a specialist consultant for multiple UN agencies, INGOs and humanitarian academic organizations such as UNDP, IOM, OCHA, ICVA, Relief International, Action Medeor, AAR Japan, SPHERE, Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD), Johns Hopkins University Center for Humanitarian Health, and NGO Coordination Committee for Iraq (NCCI).

Hassan also has online trainings on an international platform such as disasterready.org and Buildingmarkets.org, within the Investing in Humanitarian Action learning program framework (ISHA).

Hassan has conducted Organizational Capacity Assessment for more than 57 Syrian Organizations, 30 Iraqi Organizations, 10 Yemeni Organizations.

Moreover, Hassan has acted as project manager for more than 47 projects in various sectors funded by different donors such as GIZ, Expertise France (EF), Medecins Du Monde (MdM), UN Agencies, WorldVision (WV), International Rescue Committee (IRC), Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), Save The Children (SCI), Norwak and World Health Organization (WHO).

Before Bousla, Hassan was Capacity Building Director in Trust. Before Trust, Hassan was Chief Development Officer and Deputy CEO for the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations (UOSSM), where he was responsible for developing capacity building, designing strategy and establishing policies and procedures.

Dr. Tikajit Rai has over 20 years of PPPM experience in leading capacity in EdTech, wireless technology, and software development spaces. Also, a champion in social entrepreneurship, he won the 2013 International Project Management Association (IPMA) “Gold” for Community Development Project and the 2013 Green Project Management “Silver” for Most Sustainable Project for the project he implemented in Nepal to help rural farmers’ financial cooperatives transform through the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). His mantra for successful project and program deliveries has been his favorite quartet: PPPM, Systems Thinking,

Entrepreneurial Change, Enabling Thrivability of teams. For him, the last of the quartet focuses the team’s well- being and organizational health. He currently leads and supports both projects and programs at Adtalem Global Education, USA, through LearnoVation team to research, test, and scale innovative learning technologies – includes AR/VR, AI, Avatar based simulations – across the company’s five education institutions to support its collective students to succeed academically.

He served as the PM4NGOs board member from 2018 and 20023 and is one of the contributors to PM4NGO’s two guides: the Program DPro and the new Project Dpro. He is an active IPMA Project Excellent Awards assessor, the current IPMA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Special Interests Group global head. He holds Bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering, Master of Science in Information and Communications Technology, and Ph.D. in eLearning Methodology; and maintains his PMP certification.