Governance Board

DIANA PEREZ-BUCK (Spain/US). A former Fulbright scholar, and a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, in Boston, Diana worked for the UN Volunteers Program (UNDP) for seven years and most recently served as adviser for the US non-profit Vital Voices in a capacity-building program for Afghan women parliamentarians. She currently serves on the Board of Brussels’ longest-standing shelter for disadvantaged mothers ‘Chevrefeuille’.

OLIVIA LOEWE BOENTE (Spain/Germany) earned degrees in law and business administration at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid and, as a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Scholar, a Master of Law at the Ruprecht-Karls- University in Heidelberg. She has practiced business law in Madrid, and has worked in the banking sector in Frankfurt, Madrid and Milan. Before joining Mothers at Risk she was active with an anti-poverty non-profit in Bogotá, Colombia.

KATHLEEN BECKMANN (Germany) is currently the Nicaragua Country Director for the German Ministry for Development Cooperation (BMZ) based at the German Embassy in Managua.

RACHEL HAMMONDS (Canada) currently works as legal adviser for a research project on global health and human rights at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. She was previously a consultant with Medecins Sans Frontieres and researcher at Harvard University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights.

BECCA NASRALLAH(Lebanon) grew up between Lebanon, Kuwait and London and is a dental surgeon by training.

DR. DANA STRUPOVA * (Czech Republic). A lawyer by training, she has practiced law in the U.S., Germany and the Czech Republic, and is now a Director at the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in Frankfurt, Germany.

DR. MARIE DIANE BUCK(US) Dr. Buck’s field is Education and Organizational Leadership. Diane has taught extensively at the university level, and has served for most of her career as Director of intercultural programs as well as government programs to enhance opportunities for the elderly and for physically and mentally-challenged persons.
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