I first developed an interest in global issues in high school.  After attending first year at York University in Toronto, I participated in a Canada World Youth exchange programme, during which I spent three months in Jamaica.  I then enrolled in the Co-operative Programme in International Development Studies at the University of Toronto.  This programme included a nine-month internship in Sudan, in Darfur and Khartoum.  Upon graduating I worked in emergency aid for CARE Canada and CARE International, first in Mozambique and then in Angola, both countries in the throes of conflict.  I left Angola at the end of 1992, and after a brief period in The Netherlands and Canada, returned to Mozambique to work for the United Nations as an observer during the country’s first multi-party elections.  I then settled in The Netherlands where I still live.  I worked for a number of Dutch NGOs, including Oxfam Novib and Hivos, before starting my own consultancy in 2005.

 

 

 

 

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