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2002-04 - Sciences Po



Name: Francisco Manuel Benavides

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Monterrey Metropolitano, Mexico
Sponsor District: 4130
Citizenship: Mexico
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Applied Field Experience: Caritas, Mozambique
City: Paris
Country: France
Current Position: Policy analyst with the Education Department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris (www.oecd.org). He is working on innovative approaches in education for vulnerable populations.



Name: Karla Fossand

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Walker, USA
Sponsor District: 5580
Citizenship: USA
Languages: French, Nyanja, and English
Applied Field Experience: Independent qualitative research on concepts of peace, USA
City: Abuja
Country: Nigeria
Current Position: Team Leader for the Health, Population and Nutrition team, guiding one of the largest USAID health programs in Africa. She is responsible for providing technical and managerial leadership for the family planning/reproductive health, maternal, and child health and malaria programs and overseeing the most important polio eradication fight in the world. She manages a growing portfolio and engages with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria to leverage Nigeria's oil and debt relief resources into sensible Millennium Development Goals investments to address one of the worst maternal mortality ratios in the world.



Name: Stefano Gnes

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Voghera, Italy
Sponsor District: 2050
Citizenship: Italy
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and French
Applied Field Experience: Pursued independent research with the Italian Society for International Organizations, Italy as preparation for foreign service examination.
City: Paris
Country: France
Current Position: Corporate relations manager, at the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) head office in Paris.



Name: Khaleen Grant

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of St. Andrew, Jamaica
Sponsor District: 7020
Citizenship: Jamaica
Languages: English and French
Applied Field Experience: Jamaican Mission to the European Economic Community, Brussels, Belgium
City: Kingston
Country: Jamaica
Current Position: Policy manager for serious and transnational organised crime for the Jamaica Ministry of National Security.



Name: David Oliveira de Souza

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Rio de Janeiro-Botafogo, Brazil
Sponsor District: 4570
Citizenship: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese, English, Italian, and French
Applied Field Experience: Pastoral da Crianca, Brazil
City: Sergipe
Country: Brazil
Current Position: . Health consultant in AIDS programs for rural Areas and Prisons for CARE INTERNATIONAL. . Health consultant for "Doctors without boarders" (MSF) in Violence and neglected diseases programs. . Manager in AIDS and STDs programs for the Ministry of Health of Brazil.



Name: Arnoldas Pranckevicius

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Hamilton, USA
Sponsor District: 7150
Citizenship: Lithuania
Languages: English, French, Russian, and Lithuanian
Applied Field Experience: Permanent Delegation of Lithuania to UNESCO, Paris, France
City: Brussels
Country: Belgium
Current Position: Desk officer for Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, under the Directorate General for External Policies of the European Parliament, responsible for interparliamentary delegations for relations with Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.



Name: Danielle Reiff

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of New York, USA
Sponsor District: 7230
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English and French
Applied Field Experience: Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution, The Hague, Netherlands
City: Washington, DC
Country: USA
Current Position: Assigned as the head of the Program Office for the Cuba program at USAID. Will begin work out of Washington, DC in Spring 2009.



Name: Syeda Uddin

Rotary Center: Sciences Po
Class: 2002-04
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Paterson, USA
Sponsor District: 7490
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, and French
Applied Field Experience: Pursued independent Arabic language study at SINARC Summer Institute for Intensive Arabic and Culture, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
City: Pretoria
Country: South Africa
Current Position: Economic officer for the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service program.