The 2021-22 Rotary Foundation Cadre Leaders
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THE 2021-22 ROTARY FOUNDATION CADRE LEADERS CHAIR: Trustee Marcelo Demétrio Haick VICE CHAIR: Past District Governor Carolyn Johnson District 4420 (Brazil), 2021-24 District 7780 (USA), 2021-24 TECHNICAL COORDINATOR DISTRICT AND COUNTRY TERM Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention Simona Pinton 2060 (Italy) 2020-23 William Timpson 5440 (USA) 2021-22 Charles Allen 9675 (Australia) 2021-24 Disease Prevention and Treatment Noel Q. Alidio 3820 (Philippines) 2019-22 Patricia Minaya Flores 1770 (France) 2020-23 Andrew Wong 2750 (Japan) 2021-24 Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene G. Viviana Santa Cruz Mérida 4690 (Bolivia) 2019-22 Fredrick Muyodi 9214 (Uganda) 2020-23 Christopher Forster 9101 (Sierra Leone) 2021-24 Maternal and Child Health Balkrishna M. Inamdar 3141 (India) 2019-22 Klaus Gerrit Gerdts 1890 (Germany) 2020-23 Brenda Anena 9213 (Uganda) 2021-24 Basic Education and Literacy Denise Creisson 1260 (England) 2020-23 Sophie Bamwoyeraki 9213 (Uganda) 2021-22 Viveca Serder 2390 (Sweden) 2021-24 Community Economic Development Juliana Corredor González 4195 (Colombia) 2019-22 Candace Bangura 9980 (New Zealand) 2021-23 Wally Gardiner 5360 (Canada) 2021-24 Environment Jay Colingham 5450 (USA) 2021-22 Alasdair Macleod 1010 (Scotland) 2021-23 Jennifer Scott 9685 (Australia) 2021-24 Financial Auditing Utsav Rajiv Doshi 3060 (India) 2020-23 Marcelo Enrique Frangiosa 4905 (Argentina) 2020-23 Peter H.G. Cheng 3501 (Taiwan) 2021-24 Regional Organizer Region From Juliana Corredor González Central America and South America Colombia Wade Nomura North America USA Simona Pinton Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa Italy Jane Nakato Sub-Saharan Africa Uganda Balkrishna M. Inamdar South Asia India Peter H.G. Cheng East and Southeast Asia Taiwan Noel Q. Alidio South Pacific Philippines ROLES OF CADRE LEADERS Chair and Vice Chair The trustee chair-elect appoints a Cadre chair and vice chair to serve as consultants to the Stewardship Committee of the Board of Trustees. Their key responsibilities include: Training and supporting Cadre leaders Reviewing Cadre assignments Ensuring the quality and consistency of Cadre evaluations Technical Coordinators The trustee chair-elect appoints three technical coordinators for each area of focus and financial auditing. These technical coordinators have extensive technical and project development experience, as well as strong familiarity with the Cadre and Foundation programs. They serve as leaders and mentors to Cadre members and consult with Foundation staff as needed on projects within their areas of expertise. Their key responsibilities include: Providing technical expertise to enhance project quality Completing complicated or sensitive assignments Serving as a resource available to consult with Rotary members who are planning grants, Cadre members, and Rotary staff Recruiting Cadre members from targeted recruitment areas Identifying project trends and concerns and providing recommendations and best practices to stewardship staff Regional Organizers Regional organizers are appointed by the Cadre chair to build relationships between the Cadre and club, district, and regional leaders and look for opportunities to use the expertise of Cadre members by: Adding Cadre members to district resource networks Integrating Cadre members into district grant review and approval processes Inviting Cadre members to serve as trainers at regional and district events, such as Rotary institutes and grant management seminars. Cadre Leader Bios Marcelo Haick - Chair Brazil [email protected] Marcelo Demétrio Haick is president of Sologic South America, a division of a global company that provides root cause analysis methods, technology, and expertise to help companies reduce risk and solve problems. Marcelo performs investigations and manages the company’s training and consulting services throughout South America. He graduated from Santos Medical College in 1982 with a focus in occupational medicine. His professional background includes environmental, health, and safety management systems; strategic planning; and ergonomics consulting. A Rotarian since 1991, Marcelo has served in many roles, including End Polio Now coordinator, PolioPlus national advocacy adviser, and vice chair of the Cadre of Technical Advisers. He has also served as district governor, a committee member, and a training leader. As a Cadre member, Marcelo contributed to the development of the Cadre’s Long-Term Plan, and he has conducted site visits for disease prevention and treatment projects and asssessments for Rotary’s grant model evaluation. He is fluent in Portuguese and English. Carolyn Johnson – Vice Chair USA cfj2@@mac.com Carolyn Johnson is a member of the Rotary Club of Yarmouth, Maine, USA, and served as governor of District 7780 in 2013-14. She is the vice chair of the Cadre of Technical Advisers and the chair of the Basic Education and Literacy Rotary Action Group. She is also an adviser to The Rotary Foundation’s WASH in Schools program. Carolyn is an educator with more than 30 years’ experience as a teacher, administrator, and education consultant. She was selected as a Maine Distinguished Educator. Carolyn is the founder of the Culture of Reading Program (CORP), the early literacy component of the Guatemala Literacy Project, and is chair of the board of Safe Passage, an organization that uses education programs to support families who live in the neighborhood of the Guatemala City dump. In 2008, Carolyn was honored to receive Rotary’s Service Above Self Award. Carolyn and her husband, Past District Governor Peter Johnson, are Rotary Foundation Major Donors. They live in Yarmouth. Technical Coordinator Bios Simona Pinton, Technical Coordinator- Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention Italy [email protected] Simona Pinton, of the Rotary Club of Padova Euganea, Italy, is a senior research fellow in international law and human rights at the University of Venice. She holds a PhD in international law from the University of Padua. Simona was a Rotary Peace Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Master of Laws in international law and peacebuilding. She served on the prosecutorial team for the UN Tribunal for Rwandan Genocide and practiced with the law firm of Grimaldi & Clifford Chance in Padua. An expert in electoral observation, she has participated in missions with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the European Union. Simona also serves as the regional organizer for Central Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is fluent in Italian and English. William Timpson, Technical Coordinator- Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention USA [email protected] William M. Timpson is emeritus professor at the School of Education at Colorado State University. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in American history from Harvard University, he taught in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio, before completing his PhD in educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His career has focused on teaching complex and difficult topics, in particular, peace and reconciliation, sustainability, and diversity. Along with numerous articles, chapters, and grants, he has written or co-authored 19 books. He served as a Fulbright specialist in peace and reconciliation studies at the University of Ulster’s UNESCO Centre in Northern Ireland in 2006, and again in 2011 at the University of Ngozi in Burundi, where he continues to work with Rotary Foundation global grants to promote sustainable peacebuilding. In 2014, he also served as a Fulbright teaching scholar at Kyung Hee University’s Graduate Institute of Peace Studies in South Korea. Charles Allen, Technical Coordinator- Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention Australia [email protected] Charles Allen, of the Rotary Club of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is currently his club’s vice president. He is the director of partnerships at the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a strategic partner of Rotary International. The IEP Positive Peace framework has been adopted by Rotary and the Rotary Peace Centers and forms the basis of the Rotary Positive Peace Academy. Charles was a Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand in 2010. He holds a master’s degree in leadership and has studied human rights and peace and conflict resolution. He has 35 years’ experience in policing with Victoria police in Australia, where he led reform and embraced community engagement. He is well respected among peacebuilders for his pioneering work in resilience and equally respected within policing for his community-centered approach to police management. He was recently awarded the Australian Police Medal, a Division of the Order of Australia. He is a Paul Harris Fellow. Noel Q. Alidio, Technical Coordinator- Disease Prevention and Treatment Philippines [email protected] Dr. Noel Q. Alidio, of the Rotary Club of San Pablo City, Laguna, Philippines, has nearly 30 years of experience as a family physician. His medical interests include immunization programs, asthma control, diabetes, hypertension, tuberculosis, and dengue prevention. A Rotarian for more than 25 years, he has served as club president, club Foundation chair, assistant governor, PETS chair, and district grants subcommittee chair. He has served as the primary contact for more than 20 grant projects funded by The Rotary Foundation. As a Cadre member, Noel has completed two technical reviews and three site visit evaluations and