About
Our People
Board of Directors

Jude Kearney
Winrock Board Chair, ASAFO Co. LLP

Jerry Adams
Founder, Arkansas Research Alliance

Samar Ali
Research Professor, Vanderbilt Law School and Political Science, and President & CEO, Millions of Conversations

William Bumpers
Winrock Board Member

Beth Dunford
Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, African Development Bank

Michaela Edwards
Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

Thomas C. Green
President, International Anti-Corruption Research Center

Nanette Medved-Po
Founder & Chairwoman, HOPE and PCX Groups

Lisa Milton
Founder & CEO, AZAP Flores y Regalos

John M. Nees
Getty Land Company

Tuan Nguyen
Senior Client Advisor and Managing Director, Family Office at Rockefeller Capital Management

Peter M. O’Neill
Winrock Board Member

Will Rockefeller
Vice President of Winrock Farms

Saud Siddique
Co-founder & Executive Chairman, Odyssey Capital

Stacy Swann
CEO and Founding Partner of Climate Finance Advisors

Mark Watson
President and Co-Founder of Potlikker Capital
Executive Team
Programs

Jeffrey Apigian
Director, Agriculture, Resilience & Water

Lucy Brosey
Senior Director, New Business

Nina Etyemezian
Associate Vice President of Human Rights, Education & Empowerment

Mary Grady
Executive Director, ACR & CEO, Environmental Resources Trust

Sarah Havekost
Director, Child Labor & Education

Inga-Elisabeth Hawley
Associate Vice President, Clean Energy & Environment

Pete Huff
Co-Director, Wallace Center at Winrock International

Lucy Jodlowska
Executive Director, Winrock Solutions

Jay Kaufman
Technical Director, Agriculture, Resilience & Water

Stephanie Lillegard
Director of Counter Trafficking & Safe Migration

Vicki Malpass
Director of Program Delivery, U.S. Programs

Julie Nash
Director, Ecosystem Services Unit

Bikash Pandey
Director, Clean Energy & Circular Economy

Chauncey Holloman Pettis
Director, Arkansas Women's Business Center

Niry Ramasinjatovo
Senior Director, AGILE

David Sanders
Director, Enterprise Ecosystem

Susan Lightfoot Schempf
Co-Director, Wallace Center at Winrock International

Aaron Sundsmo
Associate Vice President of Agriculture, Resilience & Water
Corporate Affairs & Strategy
Communications
Finance & Accounting
Operations

Layth Jasim
Senior Director, Cost and Pricing

Rob Jones
Director of Global Safety and Security

Peter Mbogo
Senior Director, Internal Audit

Christine Nyagode
Director, Project Operational Excellence

Lana Pyburn
Senior Director, Procurement

Irena Todortcheva
Senior Director, Information Communication & Technology