The Geneva Team

Marco has worked on human rights and humanitarian issues since 1986. As a student, he worked with Amnesty International, mainly for the protection of refugees and detainees. After an MA in Chinese studies in Berlin in 1991, Marco started working for the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), first in Sri Lanka, then in the Philippines, Djibouti and Israel as a delegate, head of mission and coordinator. At the ICRC’s HQ in Geneva, he served as head of sector for Protection for the Middle East from 1998-2003, and for Asia from 2003-2007.

Since 2008, he is working full-time for the NGO Management Association.

Sandrine has 16 years of experience in international humanitarian organizations, including 11 years in the field, mostly in program management positions. She is a certified trainer specialized in Project Cycle Management, relief distribution and Training of Trainers. In the field, Sandrine has worked for Handicap International (HI) from 1993 to 1995, as administrator in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland and Kenya, for Médecins du Monde (MDM) from 1996 to 1998, as head of mission in Burundi and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the field from 1998 to 2004, as administrator in Kosovo and Albania, delegate in Albania and Timor and Economic Security Coordinator in Democratic Republic of Congo and North-Caucasus. Based at the ICRC’s Geneva HQ since 2004, Sandrine has worked for its Economic Security Unit as head of sector for the Great Lake Region and the Horn of Africa, then as deputy head of Training and as head of its training unit from 2006 to 2009.

Sandrine has a B.A. in Economic Sciences, a diploma in marketing and management, a Master in Humanitarian and Development Aid and a Master in Adult Learning. Her publications include contributions to the “Guidelines for assessment in emergencies” written for the ICRC and the International Federation for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, as well as two handbooks written for the ICRC, “Programme/Project Management: the Result-Based Approach” and “Measuring Results”.

Sandrine is now an independent consultant based in Geneva.

Jonathan is a management and organisational development consultant focusing on management capacity development, strategy, policy and governance issues, programme development, and institution building. Jonathan has worked in more than 15 countries on a wide range of innovative capacity building initiatives, resource mobilisation challenges as well as governance issues and network development. Prior to consulting, he worked for ten years in external relations, organisational development and capacity building with a number of non-governmental organisations including Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and the International Commission of Jurists.

Jonathan is currently completing a Master’s degree in Development Management. He holds a Management Development Certificate and Bachelor’s degree in Development and Social Anthropology.

Sorogini holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Geneva. She has a strong background in biomedical and clinical research and worked for nine years at the Swiss institute of Bioinformatic in Geneva contributing to the integration and organization of the world largest database of human protein. Sorogini previously worked for 3 years at the World Health Organization in the departments of Malaria, UNAIDS and Food Safety as a data analyst and scientific writer. She teaches English at the Université Populaire of Geneva. With her BSc obtained at Howard University in Washington DC, Sorogini started her career as Research Assistant at New York Medical College. She is based in Geneva, Switzerland where she has been living since 1978.

Peter has worked for 11 years for Procter & Gamble in Geneva. Originally a key account and customer marketing manager, he was then in working on global strategic alliances, establishing external partnership programmes in Central/Eastern Europe, Northern Africa, India and Malaysia. Peter has always had a strong interest in social responsibility and humanitarian aid. He has organised and participated in numerous boy/girl scout camps and has been engaged in various local non-profit activities.

Peter left Procter & Gamble in autumn 2008 to travel the world and to start working for NGOs. He has worked for the Women’s World Summit Foundation, a Swiss non-profit foundation, serving the implementation of women and children’s rights and the United Nations development and peace agenda, where he was the coordinator for the prevention programme against violence on women.

Peter is Project Coordinator Communication, responsible for communication and website contents.

Binta has a BTS in International Business and worked for 10 years in international trading. In recent years, she was a coordinator in commodity trading for a medium-sized Swiss company. She always had a great interest in social development and has been volunteering in several non-profit organisations in Geneva on human rights and children’s rights issues since her arrival in 2001.

In 2011, Binta founded an NGO, Solidarité Action Développement (SAD). SAD focuses on orphans, single-parent children and woman in need in Sénégal.

Pierre is NMA’s Admin & HR Director. He is also HR Specialist at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Former Administrator of Graduate Institute of Development Studies and Programme Manager for the Executive Master of Development Studies at the same Institute.

Pierre has worked for several years with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland as Country Administrator for Nicaragua and the Philippines missions, respectively as HR Advisor in the MSF headquarters.

With social and political background, he then took an Executive Diploma at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP). Pierre is also a certified Specialist of Human Resources Management, and an examination expert at the Swiss HR professional certification – “certificat + brevet fédéral”. His area of expertise focuses on training & development, recruitment, performance evaluation system, strategic and conflict management as well as labor law issues.

Daniel has ten years experience in protection working with the ICRC. After field missions in Iraq, Israel and occupied territories, Bosnia, he worked for at ICRC headquarters’ Protection Division in Geneva as researcher, field support officer and head of its Protection training unit. He obtained a Masters in NGO Management at the London School of Economics in 1999/2000.

Since January 2006, he has been working as training officer at a great little human rights NGO called HURIDOCS, based in Versoix, which helps other human rights organisations improve their capacity to monitor respect for human rights and document violations. In 2006, Daniel founded the website Human Rights Tools to provide human rights activitists with easy access to the best reference material for their work. Daniel is based in Coppet in the Geneva area, Switzerland.