Curt Beckmann, Treasurer
Curt has a background in high-tech, with degree in Physics and an MBA. He has co-founded a successful start-up.
Chris Watkins, Secretary
A water and sanitation engineer by training, with experience managing his own fair trade import business, Chris speaks fluent Indonesian. While he remains passionate about water and sanitation for the world, he sees knowledge-sharing and empowerment as more strategic goals.
Lonny Grafman, President
Lonny Grafman is an Instructor of Environmental Resources Engineering and Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University; the co-founder and instructor in a summer abroad, full immersion, Spanish language and appropriate technology summer program in Parras, Mexico; and the executive editor of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering. Lonny seeks ways to increase knowledge of the world through exposure and synthesis and believes that science, culture and language are inextricably linked. He seeks to highlight that connection through service-learning based education while working to improve existing conditions by leveraging local knowledge, materials, wealth and labor through transparency and stakeholder participation.
Cat Laine
Catherine Lainé received her B.A. from Swarthmore College in Biology. After spending a year and a half as an academic visitor at the Wellcome Trust Center For the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases at Oxford University, she began her studies at Harvard School of Public Health in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. She is currently a PhD candidate and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute PreDoctoral Fellow. She is fluent in French and proficient in Haitian Creole and Spanish.
Andrew Lamb
Andrew Lamb is the Education Co-ordinator for student-led international development charity Engineers Without Borders UK. Focusing on change in the undergraduate engineering curriculum to include consideration of global issues and more transferable skills, the role has also led to a wider exploration of student citizenship. Andrew has co-authored a report with John Kentish (People & Planet) and Ellen Roberts and Claire Bennett (Development in Action) entitled ‘Students As Active Global Citizens’. The report was presented at the Development Education Association conference earlier in the year. Andrew is a former chief executive of Engineers Without Borders UK, a co-founder of the Humanitarian Centre in Cambridge and has been involved in numerous international student and professional organisations. He currently works for RedR, a capacity building organisation working in international disaster relief. Andrew graduated as an Electronic and Information Engineer from the University of Cambridge.
Joel.scott Joel Scott is a California-based attorney, who joined the board in April 2008.
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