Staff Team


Executive Officers
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz Chief Executive
Deborah Vorhies Managing Director / Director of Operations
Christophe Bellmann Programmes Director
Andrew Crosby Managing Director for Operations and Strategy
Robert Oman Finance and Management Systems Manager
Senior Fellows and Resident Scholar
Pedro Roffe Intellectual Property Senior Fellow
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Regionalism and Aid for Trade Senior Fellow
Sergio Marchi Senior Fellow
Werner Corrales-Leal Development Issues Senior Fellow
Carolyn Deere Resident Scholar
General Coordination and Human Resources
Oscar Fornoza General Coordinator and Human Resources Manager
Natalia Cubilla Human Resources Officer
Finance and Management Systems
Andrew Taylor Deputy Finance Manager/Project Accountant
Alexandre Gagnaire IT Assistant
Robert Oman Finance and Management Systems Manager
Outreach & Communications
Cecile de Gardelle Dialogue Coordinator
Tamara Asamoah Publication Dissemination Officer
Programme Team
Trineesh Biswas Adviser to the Chief Executive
Moustapha Kamal Gueye Senior Associate
Johannes Bernabe Senior Associate
Adriana Verdier Projects Manager, Chief Executive's Office and Managing Editor Pontes
Damien Brulhart Special Assistant, Chief executive’s Office / Dialogue Coordinator / Global Platform
David Vivas-Eugui Deputy Programmes Director
Programme Team: Agriculture
Rebecca A. Spohrer Agriculture Programme Intern
Marie Chamay Global Platform Manager
Jonathan Hepburn Agriculture Programme Officer
Ammad Bahalim Agriculture Programme Officer
Programme Team: Aid for Trade
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Regionalism and Aid for Trade Senior Fellow
Programme Team: China
Jin Guan China Programme Reasearch Assisstant
Shuaihua Cheng Strategic Analysis and China Programme Officer
Programme Team: Competitiveness and Development
Paolo Ghisu Development Junior Programme Officer
Gloria Carrión Development Programme Officer
Programme Team: Dispute Settlement
Marie Wilke Dispute Settlement and Legal Issues Junior Programme Officer
Programme Team: Energy and Climate Change
Malena Sell Environment & Agriculture Senior Programme Officer
Mahesh Sugathan Economics & Trade Policy Analysis Programme Coordinator
Marie Chamay Global Platform Manager
Programme Team: Environment and Natural Resources
Mahesh Sugathan Economics & Trade Policy Analysis Programme Coordinator
Malena Sell Environment & Agriculture Senior Programme Officer
Marie Chamay Global Platform Manager
Programme Team: EPAs and Regionalism
El Hadji Diouf EPAs and Regionalism Programme Manager
Maximiliano Chab Regionalism Programme Officer
Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza Regionalism and Aid for Trade Senior Fellow
Programme Team: Intellectual Property
Pedro Roffe Intellectual Property Senior Fellow
Camille Russell Intellectual Property Research Assistant
Ahmed Abdel Latif Intellectual Property & Technology Programme Manager
Publications Team
Anja Halle Senior Editor and Editor for BRIDGES
Adriana Verdier Projects Manager, Chief Executive's Office and Managing Editor Pontes
Perla Buenrostro Puentes Editor
Natalia Shpilkovskaya Bridges in Russian Editor
Paige Mcclanahan Bridges Weekly Editor
Andrew Aziz Periodicals Coordinator and Bridges Trade BioRes and Bridges Trade BioRes Review Editor