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Who We Are

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Chris Jochnick

President & CEO
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Karol Boudreaux

Senior Director, Global Programs
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Claudio Colantoni

Sr. Business Development Manager
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Jennifer Duncan

Sr. Attorney & Land Tenure Specialist
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Shipra Deo

Global Gender and Land Advisor
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Laura Eshbach

Director, Corporate Engagement
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Diana Fletschner

Chief Program Officer
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Pinaki Halder

Senior Land Tenure Advisor, South Asia
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Han Zheng

China Program Director
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Krista Jacobs

Director of Research, Evaluation, and Learning
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Lucy James

Director of Global Human Resources
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Ellen Marson

Foundation Relations Director

George “Geordie” Martin

Attorney at Hillis, Clark, Martin & Peterson, PS; former Landesa Board Director
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Bophal Keat

Cambodia Program Director
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Luciana Aquino-Hagedorn, JD

Chairperson, Qarlbo Natural Asset Company AB; Lecturer, Boston University School of Law
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Godfrey Massay

Tanzania Program Director
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Rachel McMonagle

Program Director, Climate Change
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Roy Prosterman

Landesa Founder and Chairman Emeritus; Honorary Board Member
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John McWeeney

Chief Development Officer
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Everlyne Nairesiae

Africa Region Director
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Shadrack Ouma Omondi

Kenya Program Director
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Beth Roberts

Director, Center for Women’s Land Rights
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Dr. S.B. Lokesh

State Director, Karnataka, and Acting State Director, AP/Telangana
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Elizabeth “Cedar” Louis

Sr. Research and Evaluation Specialist
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Leonard Rolfes Jr.

Chief Operating Officer
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Alejandra Rossi

Global Internal Initiatives Manager

Heather Grady

EVP, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; Landesa supporter
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Tyler Roush

Communications Director
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Jonathan Smith

Director of Finance
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Mark West

Southeast Asia Sr. Director

Jack Faris

Producer at Apache Blues Film; formerly directed strategic communications for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the University of Washington, and the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association; former Landesa Board Director 

Jim Cardillo

Former President at Paccar Inc.; former Landesa Board Director
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Talha Ashraf

Global Healthcare & Strategy Executive

Jolyne Sanjak

Team Leader, FCDO Land Facility Programme at Tetra Tech International Development Europe; land tenure expert; former Landesa Chief Program Officer

Laura Lee Grace

Established and served on Landesa's (formerly known as Rural Development Institute) first board of directors; Landesa supporter and recipient of the Roy L Prosterman Humanitarian Award

Lawrence Wilkinson

Chairman of Heminge & Condell (H&C); Co-Founder of Global Business Network (GBN); former Landesa Board Director

Margaret Niles

Senior of Counsel, Partner, K&L Gates LLP; former Landesa Board Director

Marty Krasney

Founding Executive Director of Dalai Lama Fellows; former Landesa Board Director

Matt Nimetz

Retired Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, General Atlantic LLC; former Under Secretary of State; former Landesa Board Director
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Chris Grumm

Writer and Former CEO/President of the Women’s Funding Network

Maureen Miruka

Director, Gender Equity, Youth and Social Inclusion at CIMMYT; former Landesa Board Director
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Melanie Hui

CEO, Luminate

Rangita de Silva de Alwis

Associate Dean of International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania; a leading international women’s rights and Women's Peace and Security expert; member of the UN treaty body to CEDAW and Chair of the Individual Complaints Mechanism; Vice Chair of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute; former Landesa Board Director

Sandra Taylor

CEO of Sustainable Business International, former Starbucks SVP of Corporate Social Responsibility; expert in environmental sustainability; former Landesa Board Director
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Mercy Karanja

International Development Expert

Zia Khan

Independent Advisory; previously led strategy, programs, and innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation; Landesa supporter
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Titi Liu

Director, Board Relations, Center for Reproductive Rights
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Vikesh Mahendroo

Former CEO, Continuous Learning Group (CLG)
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Edwin (Ted) S. Maynard

Of Counsel, Paul Weiss
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Jennifer McFarlane

Landesa Board Vice Chair; Partner, Asterra Partners
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Jennifer T. Potter

Founder, Jennifer Potter & Associates
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Julie Pottinger

Author
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Jeff Riedinger

Vice Provost Emeritus of Global Affairs and Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Washington
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Darshana Shanbhag, MD

Former Medical Doctor
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Wilma Wallace

Landesa Board Chair; Former Chief Diversity and Social Impact Officer and Chief Legal Officer, REI