Meet our team
We apply systems-thinking approaches across development agencies and the private sector, helping to improve market dynamics, opportunities, and agency to create a more equitable world.
Erin Markel
Erin supports MSA’s business growth and technical innovation. Erin loves hiking, skiing Colorado powder and playing hide and seek with her daughters.
Ben Fowler
Ben supports MSA’s technical innovation and operations. Outside of work, Ben is happiest on his snowboard or kite board.
Shelby Bourgault
Shelby supports MSA’s gender equality and social inclusion work. Outside of work, Shelby loves traveling, dancing, and reading.
Michele Christle
Michele supports MSA's business development and communications. Michele enjoys reading, writing, and spending time in nature.
Kelly Fish
Kelly supports MSA’s Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) technical integration, innovation, and operations. Kelly is a seasoned technical leader, collaborator, and strategist, dedicated to catalyzing organizational and systemic change to facilitate more inclusive and equitable societies.
Jacqueline Foelster
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Ryan Whalen
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Queena Li
Queena implements learning and dissemination strategies to promote evidence-based policy and practice. In her spare time, Queena is an avid reader, podcast enthusiast, and amateur baker.
Gilbert Rodado
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Vivekan Jeyagaran
Vivekan is keen on exploring the intersection of systems thinking, complexity, and inclusion. He also appreciates every moment he can get in the mountains, with a hot cup of milk tea in hand and a thought-provoking book. He’s based in Toronto, Canada, where mountains are few and far between.
Khaled Khan
Khaled supports MSA’s technical innovation and client delivery. Khaled loves cosmology and trying out new food with his son.
Marrium Khan
Marrium worked for over 7 years in international development focusing on sustainable and inclusive economic growth and supporting M&E efforts. She is a travel enthusiast and loves exploring new cultures.
Fouzia Nasree
Fouzia is currently a Senior Advisor with MSA. She contributes to research, design and implementation of market-based programming as well as in integrating gender and brings unique expertise in the practical field of market systems development.
Neha Shrestha
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Noura Kamel
Noura leads MSA’s research function, bringing 14+ years of MERL experience and a passion for integrating systems thinking and behavioral science to effect meaningful change. Noura loves visiting new places, trying new foods, and laughing with her daughter.
Nikki Alamo
Nikki has previously worked as a research assistant for non-government organizations in the Philippines. She currently supports MSA’s senior executives. She loves doing DIY crafts and is a certified coffee lover.
Ranesa Poliran (Ran)
Ran supports MSA’s contracts and recruitment. Outside of work, Ran enjoys serving in her church community as a writer and volunteering in the campus ministry.
Keneath Gimenez (Ken)
Ken handles human resources and recruitment at MSA. Outside of work, she’s a fan of Formula 1, collecting books, and mobile games. Most of all, she loves taking care of her rescue dog.
Neil Oscares
Neil supports MSA’s system improvement and operations. Outside of work, Neil loves going to the beach, eating out, playing computer games, and watching TV series.
Elwyn Rodrigazo
Elwyn supports MSA's day-to-day operational and administrative functions. In his free time, Elwyn loves to play badminton and table tennis.
Elizabeth Sheehan
Elizabeth leads MSA’s operations function, bringing a background in project management and operations for USAID programming. Based out of MSA’s Denver office, Elizabeth loves hiking, cooking, and reading novels.
Dinara Abilova
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Conrad Buluma
Conrad is a qualitative research enthusiast specializing in qualitative methods. He supports MSA's research team across projects. In his free time, Conrad loves writing, reading, and indulging in music.
Carolina Pimentel Corrêa, Ph.D.
Carolina is based in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and joined MSA in 2020. Holding a Ph.D. in Sociology and a master's degree in Political Science, Carolina is an experienced qualitative researcher and has worked on developing tools to measure relationships, trust, and cooperation. An avid coffee drinker, Carolina enjoys traveling, reading, and gardening.
Laura Courbois
Laura specializes in monitoring, evaluating, and disseminating learning for development interventions that aim to improve standards of living and foster resilient economies. She is part of our MEL team, and based out of Malawi.
Miriam Namukose Siriri
Miriam is a Learning Advisor on MSA’s Feed the Future project in Uganda. She is a highly experienced MEL specialist and proud mother of four.
Esperance Mukarugwiza
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Ahmad Alulayyan
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David Byiringiro
David specializes in scoping, designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and sharing learnings for inclusive economic development interventions
Anna Garloch
Anna is leading the learning agenda of MSA's Feed the Future Market Systems & Partnerships project, shaping USAID's thinking around MSD. She is a senior MSD and private sector development expert and joined MSA in 2021.
Annet Namunane
Annet is a Gender Advisor on MSA’s Feed the Future project in Uganda. She is a seasoned Gender and Youth Specialist and a sports enthusiast. In her free time, she loves to exercise.
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If you have a passion for delivering systemic solutions, uncovering better evidence, and designing disruption for social impact, we want to meet you!
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