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Associates

INCAS Consulting Associates are individuals with hands-on sector and area expertise.

Ecoma Alaga
Ecoma currently serves as Director of Programs of the Women in Peacebuilding Network - Africa (WIPNET-Africa). Prior to this, she worked for the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) as Regional Coordinator of its Women in Peacebuilding program, and as Coordinator of its peace institute, the West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI). She is a trainer, facilitator and consultant on gender, peace and conflict related issues and has consulted for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the West Africa Network on Security and Democratic Governance (WANSED), and the University of Peace (UPEACE) in Costa Rica, to mention some. Ecoma has worked extensively with gender ministries/women’s bureaus across West Africa; and with the ECOWAS Gender Unit on gender, women and peace issues. She holds a MSc in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies and a BSc in Political Science from the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and Calabar (Nigeria).

Sarah Bayne

Sarah is an expert in conflict prevention, human security and conflict-sensitive approaches to development, with experience in applied and policy research, conflict assessment, advocacy and programme strategy. Prior to becoming a consultant in 2003, Sarah held positions at Saferworld, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Commission. She has an in depth knowledge of EU institutions and policies and has written numerous briefings and articles on EU conflict prevention and crisis management policies and programming. Whilst at Saferworld Sarah worked extensively with civil society partner organisations in the Horn of Africa and has undertaken research in Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya. She has a particular interest in examining conflict-sensitivity at the macro level in relation to strategic development frameworks and sector-wide approaches, as well as large infrastructure projects. During the mid-90’s, Sarah coordinated a network of Somali and UK Diaspora professionals and academics undertaking advocacy on international engagement in Somalia. Sarah holds an MSc in International and European Politics.

Debi Duncan
Debi is an expert in conflict assessment, peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. She is an Associate of INCAS Consulting. Debi served for six years, until 2006, in the UK Department for International Development (DfID) as a senior conflict adviser, working on corporate policy, Asia and the Middle East. While at DFID, she worked extensively on conflict analysis and conflict sensitive development in Asia. Prior to DFID, Debi worked on post-conflict reconstruction and humanitarian assistance for Oxfam in the Balkans and Horn of Africa. Debi holds MAs in Development Studies and International Peacekeeping.

Donata Garrasi
Donata is a political scientist who has worked over the last twelve years with leading international organizations, including the UN, DFID, and the World Bank. She designed and managed complex post-conflict stabilization and social development programs in several fragile and transitional countries such as Afghanistan, Nepal, Indonesia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, to mention some. Her key expertise is in design and implementation of conflict mitigation and stabilization strategies and other components of peace and democratisation processes, conflict and drivers of change analysis, conflict sensitive approaches to development. Donata has recently contributed to the design of DFID first conflict policy and to the review of PRSP guidance for conflict affected countries (WB). Donata started consulting in August 2008 and her current area of interest is the application of conflict and social development expertise to the field of corporate social responsibility, scenario planning, and social risk assessment. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Farahnaz Karim
Farahnaz has over 10 years of development experience in management, humanitarian program design and implementation, fund raising and strategy. This experience includes practical field and policy exposure in several conflict contexts such asTajikistan, Palestine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and five years on the ground experience in Taliban and post-Taliban Afghanistan. Her last assignments included a management position within the Afghan government and a Country Director assignment for one of the largest non-profits in Afghanistan. During this period, she focused on rural development, support to education, water and sanitation and cultural revitalization. Farahnaz holds a MA in Public Administration, a MA in International Relations, and a BA in Political Science.She is fluent in French, English, Spanish, and Italian.

Lilit Melikyan
Lilit is an economist with an extensive experience in development assistance. She has earned her Masters degree in economics from the University of Birmingham in 1997. Her first degree as an engineer ­economist was obtained from the Yerevan Polytechnic University in 1988. Since 1997 she has worked as a consultant/project manager in the USA, UK, Hungary, Armenia, Georgia, and Vietnam on projects funded by the EU, IFC, the WB, EBRD, DFID, UN and OSI, including regulatory and fiscal reform, infrastructure development, business and municipal development, and poverty reduction. Her experience covers conflict and post-conflict environments and early transition reforms (Armenia and Georgia). She has worked at both government level and with grass-root organisations. When working with the Eurasia Foundation, she was part of a team which initiated the South Caucasus Cooperation Program. She has particular interest and experience in monitoring and evaluation of technical and humanitarian assistance projects and government policies.

Carl Ulbricht
Carl has over the last five years specialised in community development, particularly in undertaking baseline surveys of communities and regions, and in setting up mayors' associations to coordinate development within micro-regions. He is a lawyer by training and has worked in law and public sector reform projects in the CIS since 1993, based mainly in Armenia. Although now returned to London, he remains a fluent Armenian speaker. More recently, he has worked for GTZ in Afghanistan, conducting a sustainable rural livelihoods baseline evaluations, including developing and implementing household surveys. His other area of expertise is fund raising on behalf of clients and also in his capacity as Chairman of the Community Support Centre, an Armenian NGO which he established in 2004.

Gregg Pascal Zachary
Gregg is a writer, researcher and lecturer. He spent 13 years as a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal (1989 to 2001) and writes regularly for newspapers, magazines and journals. He is the author of three books, including “Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century” (1997) and “The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy” (2003). Gregg's research interests are on development issues in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially those involving the political economy of war and conflict, environment, and identity and culture. He teaches journalism at Stanford University and has worked extensively on the role of media in conflict situations. He is, most recently, the recipient of grants from The German Marshall Fund and the Cato Institute.

Zarni
A native of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Zarni is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of International Development (QEH), Oxford where he resides. In addition to his research interests in sustainable and rural development, nation-building and education, his professional interests and expertise include human and national security, international and strategic studies and peace and conflict transformation. Over the last twenty years, Zarni has been a lobbyist at governmental level in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, around issues of corporate responsibility, human rights and reconciliation. Since 2004, he has focused on Track II negotiations involving various governments, foreign investors and international organizations, particularly around the political conflict, economic and civil society development in his native Myanmar. Zarni is frequently quoted in international media and interviewed on radio and television. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin, an MA from the University of California and BSc from the University of Mandalay.