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Robert Fox - Executive Director
Since beginning his role as Executive Director in 2005, Robert has journeyed to Oxfam Canada programs in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Cuba, South Africa and traveled across Canada meeting with Oxfam members, volunteers and allies. Robert has represented Oxfam at the Accra, Ghana, Aid Effectiveness Meetings, and lead the Oxfam International delegation to the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico.
Interviews in English and Spanish
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Mark Fried - Policy Coordinator
Mark has been following development policy issues for Oxfam since 1994. He can speak to aid commitments, maternal health, food security, and the FTT.
Mark speaks and writes regularly on development-related topics, and is the editor of From Poverty to Power, published in 2008 by Oxfam International. Mark holds a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Interviews in English, Spanish and French.
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Mia Vukojevic - Humanitarian Coordinator
Mia’s humanitarian work has a history going back to former Yugoslavia where she worked with number of non-governmental organizations. She has experience working with UN Protection Forces, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the European Monitoring Mission in Croatia, as well as with Oxfam Great Britain in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mia is a trained nurse, has a degree in European and Russian Studies and is currently completing her Masters Program at Carleton University. She presently serves on a volunteer basis on the Balkan Community Initiatives Fund Board of Trustees.
Mia can speak to humanitarian response, coordination of relief, militarization of aid and the unique ways in which women contribute to and are affected by humanitarian responses.
Interviews in English
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Lucie Goulet
Manager: Horn & East Africa Programs
Lucie has 28 years of professional experience in teaching, training and educational consulting overseas and in Canada, including 17 years in management of international development programs at three NGOs and seven years in philanthropic grant management in Canada.
Lucie has strong interest in cross-cultural relations, asset-based and citizen-led development, program design and management, capacity-building and education and knowledge management including monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Lucie Goulet can speak about gender equality, social recognition of marginalized people, the links between development and culture and the enhancement of civil society organizations.
Interviews in English and French
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Jim MacKinnon
Manager: Southern Africa Programs
Jim has worked in international development for over twenty-four years and with Oxfam Canada for eighteen years. From 1998 to 2001 he was Oxfam’s Country Representative in Zimbabwe, based in Bulawayo. Jim returned to Ottawa in 2001 to resume his work as the Coordinator for Southern Africa.
Jim is presently Chair of the Zimbabwe Reference Group (Canadian NGO Coalition working on Zimbabwe) and Chair of the Oxfam International working group on Zimbabwe.
Jim is able to speak about the political, social and economic situation in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights and the role governance plays in development.
Interviews in English
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Emily Wilson-
Program Development Officer: Southern Africa
Emily has been involved with social justice and community development work in Africa, Central Asia, South America and Canada since 1997. Her formal education – a B.A. in International Development and an M.A. in Geography – has been complemented by diverse experiential education opportunities over the years, from teaching English in rural Nepal, surveying Amerindian women’s organizations in Guyana, consulting with NGOs in Mali and Ethiopia and making a documentary film on issues of community consultation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Emily has worked with Oxfam Canada as part of the Southern Africa Team since March 2008. She has a particular interest in social media and for the past year has been overseeing a pilot project in South Africa focused on Participatory Video (PV).
Emily is able to speak about Oxfam and our partners’ work in South Africa and Zimbabwe, in particular around issues of women’s rights and gender equality; working in solidarity with local civil society organizations (capacity building); the links between culture, gender and HIV/AIDS; and participatory video.
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Neal McCarthy -
Management Information System Specialist
Neal has worked with management information systems for more than 16 years. He has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in International Development. For the last eight years, he has been working to deliver information and knowledge management capability to humanitarian and other non-profit organizations, including Amnesty International (Ireland) and GOAL (Ireland & Sudan), and to multiple organizations in Canada through his work with Freeform Solutions. He joined Oxfam Canada in 2009 to help with the implementation of a new suite of information systems which will increase our capacity and competency, and help us meet our mission and objectives.
Neal can speak about the need for, and the use of, technology in humanitarian and development contexts, and the contribution that technology can make to improving the organizational capacity and institutional memory of charitable organizations.
Interviews in English
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Imara Rolston -
Program Development Officer: The Horn & East Africa
Imara has been involved with social justice and community development work in Southern Africa, East Africa, and Canada since 1999. He holds a B.A. in Political Science with an emphasis on Sustainable Development and an M.A. in Adult Education and Community Development.
Imara has worked in restorative justice, education, community mobilization and transformation, and HIV/AIDS interventions. His local work in restorative justice focused on working with a Toronto-based organization to promote alternative dispute practices for youth with a particular emphasis on working with young men of color, while his international work has focused on HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana. His work in Botswana placed him at different points in the national response from national capacity building organizations, to community based family planning organizations, and on to a national faith based organization implementing HIV/AIDS counseling, testing and OVC initiatives.
Imara is a able to speak about Oxfam and our partners work in Ethiopia, in particular on issues of women’s rights and gender equality; and unwrapped projects in Ethiopia.
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