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 a pragmatic social anthropologist (Ph.D. Carleton university) with a MSc. in climate change (University of Nairobi), and over 20 years of experience in the areas of community development, participatory and inclusion processes, and natural resource management. From 2000 to 2010, Daniel contributed to 70+ community-based organizations and initiatives that focused on building resilient communities through food security, integrated livelihoods, and women empowerment in the semi-arid areas of Kenya. Following this, Daniel managed large portfolio projects, including an IGAD funded climate resilience project that was implemented by Global Peace initiatives throughout Northern Kenya. Daniel also held a technical advisory role on a World Bank-funded project that spanned nine African countries and focused on capacity building of forest-dependent communities. In this role, Daniel mediated a delicate but rewarding partnership between governments, civil society, indigenous peoples, and bi-lateral institutions. Daniel is also an engaged researcher particularly on climate change, green energy and livelihoods, with a passion to bridge research, practice and policy through participatory approaches. 

 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.