Team

Denise is a Brazilian consultant, who has supported movimentar in multiple projects and programmes. She holds a BA in International Relations with a postgraduate degree in Evaluation of Results and Impacts of Organizations and Public Programmes, and an MA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Denise also participated in the development programme for entrepreneurs, executives and shareholders at Babson College, US. She worked with the National Mayors Front, the ASBACE Foundation for Teaching and Research as well as companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, i9Ação Consultoria e Assessoria, Polaris Investimentos, Assessoria e Participações.

Denise has extensive experience in social development projects with the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, United Nations – Equatorial Guinea, and the United Nations Development Programme in Brazil.

Sucharit Basu Neogi studied B.Sc. in Zoology and M.Sc. in Genetics and Molecular Biology in Dhaka University in his home country Bangladesh, and holds a M.Sc. in Aquatic Ecology from Universität Bremen, Germany. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Microbial Ecology and Pathogenetics from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan. For more than 15 years he served as a devoted researcher at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh. Dr. Neogi has conducted a variety of research investigations on the environmental dynamics of infectious pathogens influencing the health of humans, animals, and aquatic organisms in collaboration with many international research institutes. 

Dr. Neogi has multidisciplinary research experiences concerning human and animal health, awareness and knowledge building on WASH, environmental health, disaster-risk reduction, food safety, sustainable natural resource management and ecosystem services- based adaptation. His research mission aims to promote sustainable healthy environment through holistic understanding of the ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases, associated driving factors, risks and barriers, and stimulating participatory interventions to protect humans, animals, and ecosystem processes. He is highly skilled in ecological, microbiological and molecular assays, including bacterial culture, water chemistry, bio-physicochemical, biogeochemical and biodiversity analysis, pathogenicity and drug resistance, genomic characterization, and bioinformatics. He has been innovative in rapid and molecular detection of infectious pathogens, ecological and epidemiological surveillance, and also holistic understanding the impacts of anthropogenic pollution and hydro-climatic disasters on waterborne and zoonotic diseases influencing human and animal health. 

Yamina is a German/Algerian consultant based in London, UK. She holds a BA in International Business and Intercultural Studies with a regional focus on the MENA region and is currently completing her MA in International Development Studies with a focus on gender studies. She has lived, worked, and studied in Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Spain, the UK, and Germany, enhancing her language skills and intercultural competencies along the way.

Yamina has gained experience in the areas of project and event management, communications, and digital facilitation. She has worked with a range of public and non-governmental development cooperation agencies, for instance a local Algerian NGO focusing on youth empowerment, an international NGO in the field of girls’ rights and for the German development cooperation in a programme directed at collective leadership and interdisciplinary dialogue for sustainable change and innovation.