Sawsan started her career in the business sector, moving to international development in 2005. As a partnership broker with over 10 years experience in the profit and non-profit sectors, she is experienced in overseeing and directing organizational programs -Including training and management, negotiating and communicating with varying sectors, and strategically devising and implementing processes to increase organizational […]

Kathleen has worked with business and non-profits internationally for over 20 years with a view toward answering a basic question- “how do we become increasingly able individuals, in a way that deeply influences others and transforms the systems in which we live and work?”. She believes the greatest leverage for change and best place to […]

Calliope has joined The Partnering Initiative as an associate to help with delivering programmes and developing extractive industries best practice for cross-sector partnerships. She has over 15 years experience in delivering practical and partnering based counsel on sustainable growth to business. Her experience has been gained within the oil, gas and power industry (BP, Amoco, […]

In 2002, after 3 years working in the private sector in a marketing, sponsorship and event management capacity, Joanna moved to work for a Corporate Social Responsibility NGO to support and facilitate Corporate-NGO partnerships. Her work involved working with businesses to implement and integrate social investment strategies into core business operations, as well as supporting […]

David’s international consultancy experience includes training, research and capacity building projects with various UN agencies, NGOs, universities and companies. Recent projects include: strategic advice to UNAIDS and UNESCO on the development of tailored private sector engagement strategies, guidelines and tools. His most recent TPI assignments include: a programme for the Aga Khan Development Network project […]