Marijke Zonnenberg

Marijke has a background in Food Safety and Development and Rural Innovation. With her experience in agricultural financing and improving nutrition security across Sub-Saharan Africa, she is now based in Ethiopia to work on the Ethiopia-Netherlands Seed Partnership, as well as global seed sector development via SeedNL.

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Emenet Ephrem

Emenet is an agribusiness consultant with an educational background in project management and engineering. She is an experienced analyst and consultant with a demonstrated history of working in government institution, private sector, and non-government organizations. She is also skilled in analytics, leadership and public speaking.

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Titus van Boekel

Titus has a background in Urban and Economic Geography. Currently, he supports the TRAIDE NL team with database compiling, researching investment opportunities, coordinating trade missions and organizing webinars.

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Júbia Uchavo

Júbia is a mid-career professional with work experience in Agribusiness Private Sector Organizations focused on creating market-based solutions. Currently, she works in the OCIF project in Mozambique as Business Development Specialist for start-ups and credit analyst. OCIF aims to support young Mozambican entrepreneurs to grow their businesses by providing access to capital and technical assistance.

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Annemieke van Ginkel

Annemieke works as financial and HR manager for both Resilience BV and the TRAIDE programs. She drives the execution of the HR related tasks and works on the financial management of the projects.

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Natalia Herrera Jiménez

Natalia is an agricultural engineer specialized in agricultural value chains analysis, with the ability to identify sustainable solutions, promote international business development and stakeholder engagement, also with experience in coordinating and supervising processes in the food industry.

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Mariamwork Tesfaye

Mariamwork is an agribusiness consultant at Resilience Ethiopia. She has an educational background in sociology and experience in working in different agribusiness sectors.

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Aucke Plantinga

Aucke is an agribusiness consultant with a background in agricultural and development economics. He is currently supporting the team in Ethiopia. His work revolves around feasibility and scoping studies, private sector support and proposal writing related to agricultural projects.

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Elna Memelink

Elna is a Gender and MERL expert. She specializes in gender advisory and integrating inclusive processes for men, women, and youth across (agricultural) development projects. She also leads impact advisory and qualitative and quantitative Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, and Learning to maximize project sustainability. 

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Maída Manuel A. Mandomando

Maída is an agricultural and environmental engineer. She works as an agronomist within the Sustainable Livelihoods Development program for Gorongosa buffer zone communities.

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