Management
Dr Sean Loughna is the Director of dPc. A political economist with over 20 years’ experience in conducting research, analysis, MEAL, project design and management, reporting and teaching/training on humanitarian, migration and displacement issues within practitioner, governmental and academic institutions. Sean gained a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Oxford in 2013. His thesis involved an examination of the political economy of internal displacement in Colombia. He has successfully completed consultancy contracts with major donors and international organizations (DFID, European Commission, ILO, IFRC, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, USAID, WFP and World Bank); government ministries (in Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States); and NGOs, academic institutions and think tanks (Danish Refugee Council, Institute of Public Policy Research, Joint IDP Profiling Service, Norwegian Refugee Council, Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute, Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, UNU/WIDER). He has expertise working in countries in North and sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. www.linkedin.com/in/sean-loughna
Consultants
Dr Natalya Lukyanova is an expert in health and social policy, health reform, gender and health rights, as well as children and youth social protection. She has some 20 years’ experience working with government departments, NGOs and the UN. She worked for UNDP Ukraine as Health Programme Specialist from 2015 to 2017, and provided her expertise to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and other national stakeholders on health rights, health governance and innovative e-health solutions. Natalya led the team that implemented the Public Expenditure and Tracking Survey / Quantitative Service Delivery Survey (PETS/QSDS) in 2016-17, in association with UNDP, World Bank and Kyiv School of Economics. She also collaborated on the UN ‘Case Study on Social support for HIV Positive Women IDPs in Ukraine’ in 2018. This year she was involved in COVID-19 resource mobilization for purchasing PPE for medical and social staff in the Eastern Ukraine, and diagnostic equipment for health institutions.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalya-lukyanova-21115662/
Varvara Pakhomenko is an expert in conflict analysis and resolution, human rights, international humanitarian law, rule of law, and development. She is currently Geneva Call’s Head of Mission in Ukraine, engaging armed actors in dialogue to protect civilians and increase their respect to International Humanitarian Law. During 2016 and 2017, she spent a year in the non-governmental controlled territories of Donbas in her capacity of Early Recovery Adviser to UNDP Ukraine. In 2011-2016 she has worked as an Analyst on Europe and Central Asia for the International Crisis Group, based in Moscow and later Istanbul. She studied and released series of reports on roots and driving forces of armed conflicts across Caucasus. In 2006-2009, she worked for Human Rights NGO Demos Center focusing on conflict in Chechnya, before moving to the Russian Justice Initiative in 2009-2011, where she covered the South Ossetian conflict in Georgia.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/varvara-pakhomenko-879bb922/
Fredric Larsson is an expert in humanitarian assistance, veteran issues, human trafficking, project management and civil society organizations in Ukraine. Currently, he is the Director of NGO Resource Centre in Kyiv. Fredric has more than 10 years of working experience in Ukraine, as a senior manager for the UN, INGOs and NNGOs, related to development and humanitarian issues. As a representative on numerous humanitarian coordination bodies, including HCT and the ICCG for four years, he has intimate knowledge of humanitarian coordination bodies and systems in Ukraine. He has been the team lead of several international evaluations of projects in Ukraine.
Dr Valeriy Kravchenko is an expert in security issues, political stability and reform, nationwide stability, resilience and mixed methods research. He is Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Kyiv. Formerly, he was Associate Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy at Vasyl’ Stus Donetsk National University (displaced to Vinnytsya). Additionally, he is the head of the NGO ‘Centre for International Security’, which is the leading non-governmental think-tank on security-related research in Eastern Ukraine, NATO contact point in Donetsk in 2009-2014. He designed and implemented two successful nationwide projects: ‘Security Passport’ and ‘Ukrainian Frontier’, both of which identified imminent threats and challenges in key regions of Ukraine which are at significant risk of increasing social unrest and/or conflict due to internal and external factors.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriy-kravchenko-1b164836/
Anna Kravchenko is an expert in conflict sensitivity, social sustainability and resilience. She was Deputy Head of Division for Conflict and Post Conflict Reconciliation, Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine (MTOT) from 2017 to 2020. At MTOT Anna Kravchenko was responsible for activities related to peacebuilding, hybrid conflicts and hybrid threats, including coordination of peacebuilding activities aimed to reduce the risk of armed conflict outbreak and recurrence through enhancing national capabilities to resolve armed conflicts, as well as defining a framework to maintain peace and development, strengthening resilience of host communities, facilitating reintegration/integration of combatants and IDPs.
Board of Non-Executive Directors
Liz David-Barrett is Professor of Governance and Integrity at University of Sussex, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption. She is an expert on integrity and anti-corruption in international business, international development, politics and public administration. Liz has a DPhil in Politics from Oxford, an MA in Slavonic and East European Studies from the University of London, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford). Liz previously worked for London think tanks the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Centre for European Reform, political risk consultancy Oxford Analytica, and worked in Croatia and Hungary as a journalist, reporting for The Economist, the Financial Times, the BBC World Service and Business Central Europe.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizdavidbarrett/
Rachael Hardiman has a background in Voluntary Sector management, working as Operations Development Lead and Operational Services Manager at British Refugee Council for the UK resettlement programme for 15 years. During the last 6 years, she has re-qualified and is a business owner running her own acupuncture clinic.
Khalil Ibrahimi is an entrepreneur businessman in IT publishing and an early innovator in the internet economy. Working initially for some of the leading brands at the advent of the internet economy as well as some of those still at the forefront of the 2nd generation, he went on to found and run the UK’s number one digital sales house, Unanimis, which was sold to France Telecom in 2009. Since exiting the company in 2010, he has continued to be involved in the ad-tech sector working for and advising tech companies enabling their innovation to become a route to markets and growth.