Our Experts and Affiliates At Social Assessment, LLC, we foster a team-based professional environment to achieve maximum effectiveness for our client countries and organizations. We have a core team of professionals based in Washington, DC, managing our field-based operations. We accomplish most of our field-work through our affiliates in client countries and participation of the local social science and non-governmental organization (NGO) communities. We have arranged mutual partnerships with a large pool of distinguished academic professionals and practitioners in the social sciences and within NGOs whose experience and expertise we can draw upon as necessary. One of these affiliates, Rabel Burdge, runs the social impact assessment web site, available at www.socialimpactassessment.net.

All of our affiliates are internationally renown social scientists and developmental NGOs, with proven capabilities and expertise in their respective areas. Many of them have been working at a capacity in which they can influence policy decisions and all of them are experts in local customs and practices in their countries. As founding partners of Social Assessment, LLC, we have worked directly with these affiliates over the years and have screened them extensively to ensure that they have a high level of expertise and professionalism. Our affiliates include resettlement experts, social analysts, economists, and NGOs specializing in social issues of development. A list of our major affiliates and their areas of expertise is provided below.

Ayse Kudat holds a Ph.D. in social relations (Harvard University, with a major in political science from MIT). She also holds a B.A. in economics, and a graduate diploma in social anthropology. Ayse was the Lead Social Scientist in ECA Region of the World Bank. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Senem Ozkan is currently CEO of Social Assessment, LLC. She has an M.Sc. from the Department of Environment and Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Bulent Ozbilgin is the Chief Technology Officer of Social Assessment and the President of Paradigm, LLC, a software and analytical services consulting company. He has an MBA from George Washington University and a BS in Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. Please click here for a detailed resume.

John Henry Juma holds a master degree in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Development Studies. John has held senior level appointments with Kenya Commercial Bank and the Kenyan Ministry of Finance. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Tom Mogeni holds an MBA from the University of Nairobi and MA from Kenyatta University. Tom has provided technical assistance in project management, strategic planning, organizational capacity assessment and development, and leadership management. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Zivanayi Dickens Manyika holds an MS degree in regional and urban planning from the University of Zimbabwe. He has provided technical assistance in governance, capacity building, and grass rootS development planning to USAID, DFID, and the government of Zimbabwe. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Nicholas J. Njoka has an MBA in Strategic Management from US International University (Kenya). Nicholas has provided technical assistance at national and local level to strengthen program management, monitoring and evaluation, and governance of HIV/AIDS programs. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Barry Kistnasamy graduated with an MD from University of Natal, South Africa. He has held senior positions in South Africa including Dean of Medicine of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwazulu-Natal. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Julian Naidoo Please click here for a detailed resume.

Nilufar Egamberdi is a PhD. Candidate in Anthropology and has worked extensively in the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Bernard Baratz has a an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, both from Princeton University. He has been a Lead Environmental Specialist and the Regional Safeguards Coordinator for the Europe/Central Asia region of the World Bank. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Brinda Crishna holds an M.Ed. from Manchester University, U.K. Crishna's expertise is in community rehabilitation, early childhood development, and employment. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Gwen Andersen is a renewable energy expert with over sixteen years of domestic and international experience. Please click here for a detailed resume.

K. Oben Cinar holds an M.B.A. from George Washington University and a BS in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Yusuf Cicek Please click here for a detailed resume.

Marnia Lazreg holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University. She has published extensively on gender roles in the Middle East and has served as the World Bank Gender Coordinator for Eastern Europe / Central Asia from 1998 through January of 2000.

Nezih Kuleyin holds a B.S. from Hacettepe University in Ankara,Turkey. In addition to his work at Social Assessment LLC, he is the director of a private company, Seymor, Inc. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Baris Sivri holds an M.B.A. from George Washington University. His country experience includes Malawi, Mexico, Armenia, Yemen, Nepal and Azerbaijan. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Ece Sanal holds an M.A. in International Development from George Washington University. Her regional experience includes East Asia, Europe and Central Asia. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Caglar Keyder Please click here for a detailed resume.

Anatolian Development Foundation is a Turkish NGO pledged to provide emergency and humanitarian aid in addition to development and rehabilitation assistance to disaster-struck and needy areas as well as refugees. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Semor is a market research company with experience in Turkey and various Central Asian countries. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Michael M. Cernea holds a Ph.D. in sociology and social philosophy. He joined the World Bank in 1974 as its first in-house sociologist, and between 1981-98, has been the Bank’s senior adviser for Sociology and Social Policy.

Elmira Suleymanova is the president of the Azerbaijan Women and Development Center (AWDC), the first research and practice center on women and gender issues in the country and the only NGO to hold special consultative status with the UN’s ECOSOC. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Alisher Ilkhamov is an expert in sociology and is currently the President of Expert-Fikri Center for Social Research in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She is also the Acting Chairman of the Advisory Board of the SOROS Foundation Open Society Institute. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Muge Kokten has a PhD in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, a MA in International Relations from the International University of Japan and a B.A. (Honors) in Political Science and International Relations from Bogazici University. Please click here for a detailed resume.

Dinora Azimova is a Professor in the Department of International Relations, University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent. She has more than 30 years of experience, and worked with UN agencies, local and international NGOs, and with the World Bank. Please click here for a detailed resume.