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International
Management Team
Milburn
Line, Chief of Party, MSD/Colombia
Milburn
Line
heads MSD's Human Rights Program funded by USAID. He
brings extensive USAID and UN project management experience
in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America
in the fields of human rights and civil society strengthening.
Mr. Line most recently was Chief of Party for the USAID-funded
Human Rights and Reconciliation Program in Guatemala City
where he helped coordinate the efforts of civil society organizations
to increase public awareness and public participation in human
rights initiatives. Mr. Line also served as a human rights
observer and conducted field investigations of allegations
of human rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan army.
Mr. Line worked also in Caracas, Venezuela monitoring human
rights violations in marginalized urban communities, developing
grassroots education programs, and promoting local and
international legal advocacy for human rights protections.
Mr. Line holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from
Columbia University, and is fluent in Spanish.
Gerard
Mosquera, Chief of Party, MSD/East Timor
Mr.
Mosquera is an attorney with a Master of Laws Degree from
King’s College London. He has expertise in justice sector
reform, public sector transparency and accountability, anti-corruption
initiatives, institutional capacity-building, criminal and
civil litigation, and program administration. As Chief of
Party, Mr. Mosquera leads the USAID-funded program, “Justice
Institution Strengthening in East Timor,” which seeks
to strengthen justice sector institutions and improve their
capacity to deliver basic services to the people of East Timor.
The program also seeks to support the establishment of the
Office of the Provedor. Prior to the MSD-East Timor project,
he served as Senior Legal Advisor and Program Manager for
Anti-Corruption of the USAID-funded Rule of Law Effectiveness
Program in the Philippines. In addition, he served as United
Nations Advisor to the Inspector General of East Timor. Mr.
Mosquera's exposure to USAID program management practices
and experience with international organizations engaged in
nation-building in East Timor, combined with his background
in law, justice reform, public accountability and program
management prepare him to lead this project. Mr. Mosquera
is a Philippines national and fluent in the Tetum and Bahasa
languages.
Teresa
Cannady, Chief of Party, MSD/Egypt
Ms.
Cannady is a legal specialist with more than 15 years experience
in Central Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and the United
States, providing management, training and technical assistance
on legal reform and human rights. She served most recently
as Country Director of a USAID-funded legal reform project
in the Philippines. Ms. Cannady is the Former Chief of Party
of a worldwide Anti-trafficking Task Order, and Deputy Chief
of Party for the Women’s Legal Rights Initiative, implementing
projects worldwide with a focus on anti-trafficking, violence
against women, family law, and customary law. She worked as
a Gender Issues Legal Specialist in the Balkans and Central
Asia designing and developing and implementing initiatives
to promote women’s rights and human rights; and led an assessment
of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW) in Serbia. She provided technical assistance
to establish a legal resource center, organized the first
association of women lawyers, and developed clinical legal
education programs. In addition, she conducted numerous interactive
training programs for judges and other legal professionals.
Ms. Cannady owned and managed a law practice for five years,
serving as a litigator in both civil and criminal trials.
She is a Member of the Alabama State Bar and is admitted to
practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Norman
Schipull, Chief of Party, MSD/El Salvador
Mr.
Schipull is an Executive
with twenty five years international experience with multinational
companies and non profit development institutions, and has
a proven ability to analyze the impact of political, economic
and social issues on international business and international
development programs. He participated as a member of the consulting
team charged with the development of a labor justice assessment
for administrative and
judicial processes covering member countries of US / CAFTA-DR
trade agreement, where he developed
recommendations for potential USAID regional and country-based
technical cooperation programs for
the improvement of labor justice access. He managed
a $2 million US Department of Labor funded ILO technical project
with a mandate to strengthen institutions, legal frameworks
and practices regarding collective bargaining at the national
and enterprise level, including issues involving labor law,
labor administration, conciliation, mediation and arbitration
mechanisms. In this capacity he coordinated investigations
and training activities in conflict resolution with Colombian
government ministries, national employer associations, and
worker organizations. In addition to USAID and international
agencies, Mr. Schipull's experience includes private sector
project management where he was involved in project start-up
activities in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru and participated
in contract negotiations with unions and where he helped establish
administrative procedures governing contracting and managing
labor resources.
Mr.
Schipull brings strong communication and cultural skills,
and excellent project management capabilities to this important
regional activity.
Ronald
West, Chief of Party, MSD/Guatemala
Mr.
West is
a security specialist with extensive experience in police
training and security reform in countries in transition.
Mr. West
served as COP for a USAID-funded community policing initiative
in Jamaica where he interacted daily with youth gang members,
community residents and officers on initiatives including training
of police, school mentoring, community infrastructure development,
and domestic violence reduction. Follow-on activities included
peace-building programs between rival gangs and the creation
of youth development initiatives. Mr. West wrote a strategy
for youth violence reduction relying on multi-agency interventions.
Mr. West worked as a crime and violence prevention expert and
designed methodology, tools for implementation, and monitoring
and evaluation plans related to crime and violence reduction
through civic participation and strengthened community institutions
and improved infrastructure. He served as technical advisor
to a USAID-funded program in the Philippines on democratic development
of police and community-based policing where he developed materials
for training Philippine National Police officers, community
members, elected officials, and government officials in methodologies
for crime and violence reduction. In East Timor, Mr. West’s
work emphasized public information outreach with a view to fostering
understanding of the differing roles of police and military
in democratic states; and mandates of national justice system
institutions versus traditional practices in dispute resolution
and conflict mitigation. Mr. West, a former police officer,
has researched and published works on police accountability
and national justice systems. He is fluent in French, and conversant
in Spanish and Portuguese.
César
Augusto Solanilla Chavarro, Senior Consultant, Legal Reform,
has
a Master’s degree in Public Law and is fluent in Spanish
and English. Mr. Solanilla served as Chief of PArty
of the USAID-funded program “Momentum
toward Fairer and Faster Justice,” which sought to increase
the effectiveness of the Criminal Court System.
Prior to the MSD-Panama project, Mr. Solanilla served
as the Justice Project Coordinator for the MSD-USAID Administration
of Justice project in Colombia. Before joining MSD,
Mr. Solanilla served in several high-ranking positions with
the Higher Judicial Council, and the Prosecutor’s Office
in Colombia. Mr. Solanilla also was the Director of
the Judicial Department, Tolima Jurisdiction.
Xuan
Nguyen Sutter, MBA, Senior
Consultant - Gender Advocacy, has more than
25 years of experience leading domestic and international
humanitarian assistance programs for refugee, displaced, and
immigrant women and children throughout Eastern Europe, Africa,
and Asia. In 1996, her vision and leadership led her
to the founding of the Refugee Women’s Network, Inc.,
an advocacy organization, which brings together women representing
32 countries to strengthen their ability to participate effectively
in American society. For her tireless efforts on behalf
of women and children, she was named Refugee Woman of the
Year in 1993 and given the Human Rights Award by Amnesty International
in 1994. In 1997, she received the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s
Family and Children’s Fellowship. In recognition
for her commitment to the community of Atlanta, she was named
as a "Woman Making a Mark 2000" by the Atlanta Magazine
and her portrait is displayed in the permanent exhibition
at the United Way of Atlanta.
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