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Nidhi Tandon
Principal consultant and trainer
Email: Nidhi at networkedintelligence.com
461 Roncesvalles Avenue, Suite D,  Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6R 2N4
+1 416 538 7398

Nidhi Tandon is originally from East Africa, and is Founder and Director of Networked Intelligence for Development. Nidhi works on local grassroots issues, in the context of globalization and increasing disparities between peoples and nations. Recently she has been specialising in digital media, information and communication technologies and applications that enhance women’s livelihoods in developing countries. She designs and runs grassroots training workshops for women’s organizations, small business and farmer communities in East and West Africa and in the Caribbean, enabling women to organize and articulate their priorities around sustainable development. Much of her work revolves around the relationships between women and water, energy, natural resources and policy decisions. She has recently published critical articles on climate change and its impact on water, and on the negative implications of biofuel monoculture on women's land use options.

Prior to NID, Nidhi worked at the Overseas Development Institute, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, UK. Nidhi sits on the Boards of Ontario Nature, the West End Food Cooperative, and Greenest City in Toronto, Canada. She has a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Sussex.

Sarah Murray
Research associate
Email: Sarah at networkedintelligence.com

has a long-standing commitment to community development and proven capacity for project management. Sarah’s management and coordination experiences range from livelihood development in South-East Asia to student field study programs throughout East Africa. Sarah is currently managing the development of a thought-leadership forum on innovation and technology transfer in the Middle East. She is also managing an initiative to build workforce literacy programming for adults across Canada.

Sarah also has strong analysis and research competency. Her thesis research examined policy aspects, implementation issues, and the cost-effectiveness of new biomedical HIV prevention techniques. Recent involvement with NID included two studies assessing global gender mainstreaming materials and women’s use of ICTs in developing countries.

Sarah holds a M.D.E. in Development Economics from Dalhousie University and a B.A.H. in Computing and Information Science from Guelph University. She also sits on the Human Rights Watch Toronto Network Steering Committee.

 

Shannon Pritchard
Project manager and trainer
Email: Shannon at networkedintelligence.com

Shannon Pritchard has twelve years of progressive Canadian and international experience in Project Management, with a proven ability to effectively manage business relationships, interpret needs, discern priorities and deliver results. Shannon has worked for NID in Africa and the Caribbean in various capacities including presenter at a national IT training workshop, ICT trainer for women entrepreneurs and researcher on various projects.

Fluent in English, French and Spanish, Shannon has a Master’s in Project Management and a B.A. from Queen’s University in Spanish and Latin American Studies and Political Science.

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell
Senior consultant and trainer
Email: Dorienne at networkedintelligence.com

Dorienne Rowan-Campbell has been working on a wide range of women, gender and development issues for more than 30 years. Her organic farming experience has widened the emphasis to include questions of export, access, business management, ICTs and organic production. Based out of both Canada and Jamaica, which affords a useful “bifocal” world vision; she works as an independent development consultant. Dorienne owns and manages a small, certified organic farm and produces Rowan’s Royale Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. She is a qualified organic crop inspector, Board Member of the Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement and interim Vice Chair of the fledgling Caribbean Regional Organic Agriculture Movement (CROAM).

In thirty years of committed effort, Dorienne has provided institutional strengthening, capacity development, training, policy and programme analysis, networking advocacy, visioning, strategic planning and alliance building and technical inputs to a wide variety of government, NGO, private sector, academic and donor clients, always adopting a participatory, change management approach.

Erich Vogt

Erich Vogt is based in Washington D.C., he is a media development consultant designing media and communication visions, strategies and programs for NGOs and multilateral and bilateral development agencies. More recently he has been providing climate change policy advice to multi-lateral institutions, regional development banks and international NGOs. Erich is also a Professorial Lecturer at American University’s School of International Service and Senior Lecturer at the University of Guelph’s Environmental Design and Rural Development Department.

Before joining NID, Erich worked briefly in the World Bank, prior to which he was the Head of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation’s Media development office in Geneva and in Bonn.

Erich holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from the Free University of Berlin and an M.A. in Political Science from Indiana University. He was a professional journalism fellow at Stanford University and a member of the German National Swim Team.