Carolina Kern: Carolina has 10 years of experience working for development and humanitarian organisations, helping them to design, manage, coordinate and raise the profile of projects and programmes. She has excellent skills in programme management, monitoring, research and communications, and has worked for bilateral donors, the UN and think tanks across health, governance, humanitarian and food security portfolios. She is now based in Kenya after working for UNDP/Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in South Sudan as a Communications Specialist and Senior Programme Manager for AusAID in Kenya, Sudan, and South Sudan.
Jeff Knezovich: Jeff is a digital communication specialist who works to synthesise complex information into rich data visualisations and targeted briefings. Most recently, he managed the digital communication activities of the Nuffield Trust, a British think tank focusing on health. He led or contributed to the communications activities of several large projects, including the Future Health Systems RPC, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Comercio y Pobreza en Latino América (COPLA).
Richard Darlington: Richard is Head of Strategic Communications at Well Made Strategy, part of the Well Told Story group. He is a think tank communications specialist and former ministerial level Special Adviser for DFID. He has more than a decade of experience working in three UK government departments and two UK think tanks. He has also worked on three UK General Election campaigns. Over the last two years he has worked on communications strategy development, training, mentoring and coaching in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Connie St Louis: Connie began her journalism career in 1990 when she was recruited onto a two year BBC Network Radio Trainee Reporter Scheme. Soon she was promoted to senior producer within the BBC Science Unit producing a wide range of programming including weekly magazine programmes such as ‘Science Now’ and ‘Medicine Now’. 
Annapoorna Ravichander: Annapoorna is an independent consultant who joined the On Think Tanks team in late 2016. She holds a PhD in History and has over 25 years of experience in the areas of training, writing and communication. Annapoorna has published articles in journals, newspapers and newsletters and has worked as an associate editor and coordinator in book publishing. Her core skills include editing, communication and training. Until 2016 she was the Head of the Communication and Policy Engagement Team (CPE) at the Center for Study, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) in India. Annapoorna has been a recipient of the Rotary Award for Exemplary Services in 1999, Vadodara, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal from 1985-86 and UGC Fellowship from 1984-1988. She currently lives in India.A few months ago I reported on an event I helped organise in Lima on think tanks. It was hosted by CIES and co-organised by GDNet, the Think Tank Initiative, CIPPEC, Grupo FARO and the EBPDN. Micaela Pesantes has shared the event’s report with me (and I share it with you: in English, this time).
January 3, 2012
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