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Dr Liz Watson is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Fellow of Newnham College. Trained in Geography and Anthropology, her research has focused on the social development and environmental dimensions of indigenous irrigation and intensive agriculture in Kenya and Ethiopia. She has also studied community-based natural resource management development projects and the way gender concerns are integrated into environment and development projects.

Allister Clewlow is the initiator and first contact for UNWFP/ USAID funded food programming world-wide. As part on Samaritan’s Purse International Technical Team, Allister is involved in refereeing for technical standards on the programs having been involved since Samaritans Purse began to work with international government and UN funding.

Dr Heather Cruickshank worked as a civil engineer for ten years before joining the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering as a Research Assistant. Heather has degrees in Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences and completed a PhD in 2004 on Sustainable Development in Civil Engineering. In 2003 Heather spent 6 months working for Irish aid agency Concern in Afghanistan, and also has experience in Nepal, Albania, South Africa and Mongolia. In 2005 she was part of the international relief programme for people affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Heather is on the board of trustees for Engineers Without Borders UK.

Jo da Silva is an Associate Director at Arup, where she has worked since studying engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge University. She has combined a career at Arup, focussed on building design, urban re-generation and sustainable development with active involvement in the humanitarian sector, and leads Arup International Development (AID). She has been a RedR Member since 1991, and has provided expertise to assist NGOs in post-disaster situations including building refugee camps following the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and as Senior Shelter Co-ordinator for UNHCR in Sri Lanka post-tsunami. She is currently working with humanitarian partners on re-construction projects in Aceh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Beirut and Biloxi, Mississippi. In 1995, da Silva became Chair of RedR (Engineers for Disaster Relief) and subsequently co-founded RedR International.

WORKSHOP LEADERS

Alison Walsham: After a philosophy degree and 3 years in an engineering business Alison spent 4 years in Africa doing a variety of voluntary work. Returning to the UK, she joined the Cambridge University Careers Service representing fields of work 'for-more-than-profit', driven by the principle that everyone should both enjoy and passionately believe in the work they do, and be helped and encouraged on the way. She continues to visit projects, organisations, and colleagues in developing countries at every possible opportunity.

Andrew Lamb works for RedR-IHE in London - an organisation that trains and recruits aid workers for major aid agencies. He is one of the founders of the Humanitarian Centre and a former Chief-Executive of Engineers Without Borders UK. He graduated in Engineering from Cambridge in 2005. The workshop builds on his experiences overseas and draws particularly upon lessons from India.

Rebecca Cork worked as a teacher in Africa in 1998 and since then has been involved in several development projects, including teaching in Romania and Maldives. She went on to found Friends of Maldives and returned to university to study a Masters in International Development and Economics. She is now working for SOS Children in Cambridge.

Chris Whitcombe spent last summer as a Project Worker for Kenya Education Partnerships, investing £2000 worth of resources into a rural secondary school, piloting a beekeeping income generating project and setting up new iniatives in school management, health, career and sports. He has now taken over the School Management lead for Kenya Education Partnerships and is in his final year of Economics.

Will Horwitz spent 8 months of his gap year in Zambia doing peer education centred around HIV and AIDS with a charity called Students Partnership Worldwide. He has been involved with the Stop AIDS Campaign in Cambridge and nationally, and spent 3 months last summer in South Africa volunteering with the Treatment Action Campaign.

Hamish Falconer is the Chair of Cambridge University Amnesty International and Director of Sudan Divestment UK, an organisation campaigning for UK institutions to take financial action to stop the genocide in Darfur.