Maurice Makoloo
Maurice joined Habitat for Humanity International on the 1st of February as Senior Director, Africa Hub. He is based in Nairobi from where he leads the work in Sub-Saharan Africa. He joined Habitat with over 20 years of experience as a strategic global nonprofit executive leader who has developed and led successful organizations in Africa. […]
Rachael Marie Scicluna
Rachael M Scicluna is an applied urban anthropologist and a Housing, Strategy and Policy Consultant within the Ministry of Social Accommodation, Malta. She is a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of Malta and is an active member of the Committee Bureau on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management […]
Jouni J. K. Jaakkola
Jouni J. K. Jaakkola, MD, DSc, PhD is the Professor of Public Health at the University of Oulu and Research Professor at Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), and the Director of the Center for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research (CERH) at the University of Oulu. He has broad long-term interests in global health. From the early […]
Ela Serdaroglu
Ela Serdaroglu is currently holding the position of Shelter Lead at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. In this capacity, she is also the Global Shelter Cluster Coordinator for the IFRC, co-leading the Shelter Cluster with UNHCR. Ela’s humanitarian career started in 1999 […]
Martha Giannakopoulou
Martha Giannakopoulou is an independent expert on Architecture, urban design and innovation. Graduated with an Architectural and urban design degree from the Architectural Association of Architecture in London in 2001 with a scholarship and was awarded the William Glover Award. Currently, she is a validated Urbact expert on Housing, a UIA expert on housing for […]
Knut Höller
Knut Höller is an Executive Member of the Managing Board at Housing Initiative for Eastern Europe (IWO e.V.). Knut trained economist and M.B.A. with profound knowledge of housing policy in Germany as well as in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and has been working in projects in direct cooperation with government institutions in different countries […]
Assya Dobrudzhalieva
Assya Dobrudzhalieva is Project Manager at Habitat for Humanity Bulgaria since August 2010. She is a Master of Environmental Protection (1989, FU Sofia) and has a master’s degree in Finance (1999, UNWE, Sofia). She has very good experience in strategic planning, sustainable development on a local, regional and national levels, project development and implementation. She […]
Bea Varnai
Bea is passionate about facilitating peer learning, participatory urban development and the organizational processes underlying community-led housing initiatives. In her capacity as a project manager at the non-profit urbaMonde and as an independent consultant, she supports people-led housing initiatives across Europe, Africa and Latin America. Part of her work focuses on the design of financial […]
Hennadiy Zubko
Hennadiy Zubko is a Ukrainian statesman, the Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Building and Housing and Communal Services in the two Governments of Ukraine in 2014-2019 and 2016-2019. Hennadiy was responsible for coordinating and implementing the two key reforms of the Government, decentralization, energy efficiency, and deregulation in construction. He is an anti-crisis, […]
Chris Herink
Chris Herink is the Vice President of the Program Effectivness for Habitat for Humanity International based in Seattle, Washington. Chris leads the effort to define, document, and communicate Habitat for Humanity International’s impact across all country programs. He manages teams that drive Habitat’s program strategy, technical expertise, and results measurement. Safeguarding, disaster risk reduction, and […]
Stephen Seidel
Stephen Seidel is Senior Director for Strategic and Technical Partnerships at Habitat for Humanity International. In this role, Stephen facilitates the implementation of HFHI’s global strategies by establishing and managing partnerships with organizations and institutions in the global development sector. Stephen joined Habitat for Humanity International in 2004, and before that, served as the Executive […]
Ieva Strupule
Ieva Strupule is a serial startup entrepreneur, advisor and speaker recognized as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Currently, Ieva is the CEO and co-founder of Material Mapper, an Oslo/Norway based startup that facilitates material re-use in construction. Ieva’s background is in Big Data Structuring, IT, Finance and Travel. She is a Latvian […]