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Michael Kuncio

Michael Kuncio, program manager with Winrock’s Human Rights, Education & Empowerment team, is also the project contact for Advancing Human Rights within Nestlé’s Palm Oil Supply Chain. He focuses on strategic partnerships and project management for Winrock’s counter-trafficking portfolio. Kuncio’s technical expertise includes responsible sourcing solutions in agricultural commodity supply chains to respond to forced […]

Andrew Carberry

Andrew Carberry, project manager with the Wallace Center at Winrock International, has 14 years of experience in food systems and nutrition programming. He serves on Wallace’s Food Systems Leadership team, which supports community-based organizations, food hubs and food enterprises by providing technical assistance through the Food Systems Leadership Network. The FSLN’s mentorship program connects community […]

Pete Huff

Pete Huff, co-director of the Wallace Center at Winrock International, has worked in the farming and food system sector for more than 15 years, designing and running nonprofit and government projects in both the U.S. and Australia. His work has focused on supporting family farms and other working lands to be financially successful while producing […]

Bikash Pandey

Bikash Pandey is director of Clean Energy & Circular Economy at Winrock International. Winrock’s energy programs bring access to energy for the poor and increase clean electricity on the grid. Modern energy services are used to expand economic opportunity in rural areas and improve health care, education and living standards. Pandey’s work experience encompasses 20 years […]

Susan Lightfoot Schempf

Susan Lightfoot Schempf, co-director of the Wallace Center at Winrock International, brings 20 years of experience in direct service, community organizing, nonprofit leadership, and equitable food systems development to the center. She has dedicated her life’s work to building relationships of solidarity across communities, nourishing leadership, facilitating collaboration, and realizing food sovereignty. She  was the […]

Brian Bean

Brian Bean has 25 years of experience providing technical and management support across a range of environmental sectors related to climate change including forestry, biodiversity, environmental protection, agriculture and aquaculture. He is currently chief of party for the Climate Resilient Agriculture in the Mekong Delta project, which is supporting the government of Vietnam and local […]

Olga DiPretoro

Olga DiPretoro, technical advisor with Winrock’s Human Rights, Education & Empowerment group, focuses on strategic partnerships, program design and management for Winrock’s counter-trafficking portfolio. Her technical expertise includes locally driven and survivor-led solutions in detecting and responding to trafficking-in-persons, forced labor and exploitation of children. Over her 15-year tenure with Winrock, she has designed and […]

Mark Tribble

Profile coming soon.
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Elisa Derby

Elisa Derby is a household energy expert with more than a decade of experience in the cookstoves sector. She manages Winrock’s household energy and health programs, with projects and partnerships that reduce fuel use and exposure to household air pollution — providing technical support, strategic planning, implementation and budget management. Her work incorporates field-based capacity […]
Dr. Sandra Brown

Dr. Sandra Brown

The late Dr. Sandra Brown (1944-2017) was the Chief Scientist with Winrock’s Ecosystem Services Unit. She was a specialist in the role of land use and land cover change in the global carbon cycle and climate change, the impacts of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems, and the present and potential future role of terrestrial ecosystems […]
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