Our team

Aoife McCullough

        Aoife has managed various projects in India, Niger, DRC and Ireland with both national and international NGOs. Combining an Irish sense of humour with a tendency to over-analyse our website, she works as our Executive Manager.
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Michael Schaefer

        Michael studied Marketing Management at Oxford Brooks University. His work experience includes previous entrepreneurial endeavors in managing a start-up business in Oxford, England and being trained in Sales & Marketing whilst completing a placement year for the global industrial firm Festo. Were it not for anthropologists' distaste for cultural stereotyping, we'd say Michael's Philippine and German heritage make him a natural-born Marketing and Communications Manager.
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Hamid Foroughi

        Hamid completed an MBA at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. He has provided consultancy on strategic planning, change management and systems dynamics for major software and automobile firms in Iran. Our Business Development Manager also looks back on an impressive career in number-crunching - at the tender age of 18, he was already Iran's best maths student. We are delighted Hamid has agreed to put his mathematical mind to work on Worldwise Development.
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Magdalena Kloss

        Magdalena has been a participant observer since her transnational childhood. She studied anthropology at the University of Vienna and has used her anthropological skills at the UN World Food Programme in Rome and as junior technical advisor for the German Development Service in Yemen. She is our Experts Liasion Manager.
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Advisor: Prof. Deborah James

        Prof. James is the head of the Anthropology Department at the LSE. She is also part of a group which aims to facilitate dialogue between anthropologists and development practitioners. Prof James is a specialist in the anthropology of South and Southern Africa, where much of her fieldwork has been conducted in Mpumalanga and Northern Provinces and their urban hinterland, the Witwatersrand. Key areas of interest include anthropological demography, political economy, family, land claims, resettlement and migration.