Our People

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Mark Redwood is a climate change and development specialist with 25 years of experience in executive leadership, research and consulting. Mark is the founder and director of In Exchange: Water, Climate and Environment, a firm he built to support organisations in their achievement of their goals.  Mark has led teams working on climate finance, agriculture and water programmes in Somalia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, and Jordan. He has worked with water utilities in the development of their climate action plans in Indonesia and on cost recovery and business planning in Indonesia and Zambia. From 2016 to 2020, Mark was an Executive Vice President at Cowater International handling a large portfolio of water and climate change related projects. He was the Executive Director of the FCDO funded Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises programme (SPARC, £20M). At Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC, 2002-2015) Mark led the development of research programmes and projects on wastewater reuse, urban agriculture, water resource management and climate change. He is a graduate of McGill University in Canada in Urban Planning (M.U.P). 

Daniel Salau Rogei is an anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Carleton University and a Master’s in Climate Change from the University of Nairobi. He has over two decades of experience in community development, participatory and inclusive approaches, and natural resource management, with a particular focus on climate resilience and Indigenous rights.

From 2000 to 2010, Daniel worked with more than 70 community-based organizations across Kenya’s semi-arid regions, supporting food security, integrated livelihoods, and women’s empowerment. He has since led and advised on complex, multi-country initiatives, including an IGAD-funded climate resilience project in Northern Kenya and a World Bank-supported program across nine African countries aimed at strengthening the capacities of forest-dependent communities. In this work, he has helped to build constructive partnerships between governments, Indigenous peoples, civil society, and international institutions.

Daniel combines field-based research with advisory roles and has published on climate change, green energy, and sustainable livelihoods. He is committed to bridging research, policy, and practice through inclusive and locally informed methods.

Darine BenAmara is a gender specialist with over a decade of experience in inclusive governance, gender-responsive policy development, and institutional reform across Africa. As the founder of The Smart Woman Consulting, she collaborates with governments, international organizations, and civil society to integrate gender equality into policies and institutional practices.

Her work includes leading and advising on initiatives focused on gender-responsive parliaments, women's economic empowerment, and the integration of gender into economic policy in countries such as Ghana, Togo, and Kenya. Darine's expertise includes policy analysis, strategy development, gender data integration, and capacity-building.

She has delivered speeches and training at institutions including UNESCO, the White House, McGill University, and the Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation. Darine holds a Master's Degree in Applied Policy and International Relations and certifications in Gender-Based Analysis Plus and Public-Private Partnerships. She is fluent in English and French.

 Muzzamil Abdi Sheikh is the Research Director at BAAR Research Consulting, with over a decade of experience in livelihoods, climate change, development, stabilization, governance, and peacebuilding in Somalia and East Africa. He holds a Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Nairobi. Muzzamil has collaborated with government institutions and non-governmental organizations, including the Climate Risk Institute on a technical assistance project to develop Somalia's National Climate Finance Strategy, the World Bank in evaluating its Country Program Evaluation for Somalia, and the World Food Programme's Vulnerability-Based Targeting pilot in Baidoa and Dollow. He has also worked with ODI and IOM on several evaluation assignments and served as a research coordinator for Somalia and a Program Advisor at Saferworld and the Life & Peace Institute. Muzzamil is also an Associate of GIST Research, In Exchange and SPARC. As a published author, he explores the intersections of climate change, conflict, and food security. 

Rachel Boyer has a background in Environmental Engineering (Carleton University) and works in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. She earned a MASc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Victoria, where her thesis focused on improving microbial water quality monitoring methods in low resource contexts, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. During her master’s, Rachel gained practical experience in Malawi, on a project related to chlorination disinfection by-products, and in Colombia, during a WASH-focused field course. Rachel then interned at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), where she collaborated with Helvetas-Nepal on a project researching passive chlorination in rural, mountainous settings. She has further experience consultanting with UNICEF, and coordinating a national graduate training programme.  Rachel is passionate about addressing the most pressing challenge of the century, including the global access to drinking water and climate change.