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Staff

The OGP Support Unit is a small, permanent secretariat that works closely with the Steering Committee to advance the goals of the Open Government Partnership. The Support Unit is designed to maintain institutional memory, manage OGP’s external communications, ensure the continuity of organizational relationships with OGP’s partners, advance implementation of OGP’s strategy and support the broader membership. The Support Unit’s organizational structure was revised in 2023 to align with OGP’s 2023-2028 strategy.

The Support Unit consists of staff and a pool of consultants we work with closely. Find more info here.

Leadership

Senior Leadership Team

Aidan Eyakuze

Chief Executive Officer

Paul Maassen

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Denisse Miranda

Chief Finance & Operations Officer

Executive Committee

Jon Welsh

Director, People & Culture

Judith McCormack

Director, Finance

Rudi Borrmann

Director, Communications, Content & Community Engagement

Alessandro Bellantoni

Director, Policy and Partnerships

Rosario Pavese

Director, Country Support (Regions)

José María Marín

Director, Country Support

Tinatin Ninua

Director, Accountability & Learning

Operations and Organizational Development

Denisse Miranda

Chief Finance & Operations Officer

Judith McCormack

Director, Finance

Brittany Williams

Finance & Accounting Officer

Sandy Arce

Senior Grants and Operations Officer

Jon Welsh

Director, People & Culture

Fanny Udin

Human Resources Manager

Candice Kern

Operations Associate

Global Programs

Paul Maassen

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Joseph Foti

Principal Advisor, Emerging Issues

Asfia Tareen

Lead, Donor Engagement

Maia Koytcheva

Senior Project Officer

Janani Padmanabhan

Junior Program Officer, Donor Management & Reporting

Ashi Gottumukkula

Project Officer, Executive Office

Communications, Content & Community Engagement

Rudi Borrmann

Director, Communications, Content & Community Engagement

Meghan Wallace

Lead, Events

Jose Perez Escotto

Lead, Communications

Marco Consalvo

Senior Communications Officer

Christina Socci

Senior Research & Content Officer

Nicole Greene

Communications Officer

Tamara Jobava

Communications Consultant

Policy & Partnerships

Alessandro Bellantoni

Director, Policy and Partnerships

Tim Hughes

Lead, Democracy and Participation

Adna Karamehic-Oates

Lead, Policy & Partnerships

Paula Perez

Senior Program Officer

Sarah Kennedy

Program Officer

Jaime Mercado

Lead, Champions Network & Governance

Kamolwan (Ling) Panyasevanamit

Advisor (consultant), Policy & Partnership

Rowan Sockwell

Global Programs and Partnerships Program Officer

Frida Quevedo

Gender & Inclusion Programme Officer

Regions

Pepe García

Senior Regional Coordinator, Americas

Carolina Cornejo

Senior Regional Coordinator, Americas

Paul Braithwaite

Regional Lead, Europe

Carina Paju

Senior Regional Coordinator, Europe

Sandra Pernar

Senior Regional Coordinator, Europe

Mathilde Bouyé

Senior Regional Coordinator, Europe

Tarik Nesh-Nash

Senior Regional Coordinator, Africa and the Middle East

M. Kgothatso Semela

Regional Lead, Africa & Middle East

Swati Mehta

Regional Lead, Asia and Pacific

Ericka Blas-Senining

Program Officer, Asia and the Pacific

OGP Local

José María Marín

Director, Country Support

Clorinda Romo

Program Officer

Mercedes Nasiff

Program Officer

Eastern Partnership

Peter Varga

Lead, Eastern Partnership 

Anastasiya Kozlovtseva

Regional Coordinator

Patrycja Pańczyk

Program Officer

Program for Democracy & Accountability

Maureen Kariuki

Program Lead, Partnership for Democracy and Accountability

Georgia Intze

Program Assistant

Member Services

Wanda Tiefenbacher

Program Coordinator, Member Services

Accountability & Learning

Tinatin Ninua

Director, Accountability & Learning

Munyema Hasan

Lead, Evaluation, Learning & Impact

Independent Reporting Mechanism

Andreas Pavlou

Lead, Independent Reporting Mechanism

Juan Collazos

Research Officer

Sarah Jacobs

Research Officer

Mia Katan

Senior Research Officer

Matthew Tramonti

Senior Research Officer

Phaedra Vakouli

Research Associate

Data & Analytics

Renzo Falla

Lead, Data & Analytics

Riana Bucceri

Assistant, Data & Analytics