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Souk-Daray Sithimolada is a Canadian citizen of Laotian decent. She is a true Global Citizen, born in France and raised in London, Washington DC and Laos. Souk-Daray, benefited from a first class education and she is fluent in Lao, English, French and Thai. From the start, Souk-Daray learned to interact and respect people from different cultures and with different values, and, to recognize the role that cultural differences play in people’s perceptions and behaviour.

In 2001, she joined an international development consulting firm, with the view of combining her communications skills with international project management experience. During her career, Souk-Daray has worked to initiate projects and development initiatives through her impressive network of government and private sector business contacts in Canada, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and China. Her international career began as a Financial Coordinator to the Advisory and Logistic Support Centre within the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Lao PDR responsible to execute UNDP/World Bank-financed projects. Since her immigration in Canada in 1984, she has developed her organizational and coaching skills on several key positions with leading international education and consulting firms like Tecsult-Eduplus, IDEA International, CRC Sogema Inc, Knightsbridge or Cira Medical Services. Souk-Daray, is a committed multi-cultural and multi-lingual professional dedicated to meeting clients objectives in all mandates under her responsibility.

Nadia holds a Master’s degree in Project Management from the University of Quebec in Rimouski (Canada) and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, International Profile, from the University Laval (Canada). She is a Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) which demonstrates her expertise and proficiency in project management.

Nadia has worked for several development organizations where she worked as Training program coordinator (with training centers in Latin America, North America, Western and Eastern Africa) and as International project development specialist. As such, she collaborated on numerous projects in Africa (Morocco, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, etc.) and America (Canada, Panama, etc.). She has also worked for the Auditor General of Quebec (Quebec Government) as Performance audit adviser and she is currently working for a shared-services organization providing services to the entire government as Project manager for internal audits. She has extensive experience in public program and project management, strategic planning, public procurement, public finance management, monitoring and evaluation, leadership, change management, capacity development and performance auditing having worked both in public and private institutions.

Mr. Kamwanga holds a Ph.D in Health Economics and Policy from University of London, a Master’s Degree (M.A.) in Demography from the Australian National University and a B.A. in Economics & Demography Double Major from the University of Zambia. DR. Kamwanga has years of experience and vast knowledge in many countries and his areas of expertise are Monitoring & Evaluation, Capacity building, Research and Economics, Health Systems & population. He has worked with the Government of Zambia and major donor organizations such as UNDP, World Bank, DFID, USAID, UNICEF, DANIDA among others.

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The Faculty of Social Sciences comprises nine departments, schools and institutes, which offer undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs in both English and French. With its 10,000 students, 260 full-time professors, and wide array of programs and research centres, the Faculty of Social Sciences plays a key role at the heart of the University of Ottawa.

Under a dynamic collaboration, the faculty of Social Sciences and ILP-CoP are developing innovative training initiatives aiming at the development of national capacities and skills in areas such as Public Governance, Program/Project Management or more sector specific competencies. For the Ministry of Finance in DRC, the Faculty and ILP-CoP are currently running, under a partnership agreement, a Masters degree in Management of Public and International Affairs under a mixed approach combining on line and on site activities.