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Lincoln C. Chen is President of the China Medical Board. Started in 1914, the Board was endowed by John D. Rockefeller as an independent American foundation to advance health in China and Asia by strengthening medical education, research, and policies.

Dr. Chen was the founding director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative (2001-2006), and in an earlier decade, the Taro Takemi Professor of International Health and Director of the University-wide Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (1987-1996). In 1997-2001, Dr. Chen served as Executive Vice-President of the Rockefeller Foundation, and in 1973-1987, he represented the Ford Foundation in India and Bangladesh. In 2008, Dr. Chen assumed the Chair of the Board of BRAC USA, having completed two terms as Chair of the Board of CARE/USA in 2007. He serves as Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee to the FXB Center on Health and Human Rights at Harvard. Dr. Chen also serves on the Board of the Social Science Research Council, the Institute of Metrics and Evaluation (University of Washington), the Public Health Foundation of India, and the UN Fund for International Partnerships (counterpart to the UN Foundation). He was the Special Envoy of the WHO Director-General in Human Resources for Health (2004-2007), and the Founding Chair of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (2006-2008).

Dr. Chen is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He graduated from Princeton University (BA), Harvard Medical School (MD), and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (MPH).

Dr. Richard A. Cash is a senior lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years.

Presently, he has visiting faculty appointments at a number of schools of public health throughout the world including Public Health Foundation of India in Delhi and the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University in Dhaka.

Richard has focused his work on infectious disease problems in the developing world and on ethical issues in international health research. He is credited with saving millions of lives as a co-developer and promoter of oral rehydration therapy to treat cholera and other diarrheal diseases. In this regard he is especially interested in scaling up effective yet simple interventions. Richard was a joint recipient of the 2006 Prince Mahidol Award for “exemplary contributions in the field of public health,” and in 2011, he received the Fries Prize for Improving Health.

James Carlson serves as an Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law, teaching Securities and Capital Markets Regulation since 1996. From 2009 – 2011, James also taught Derivatives and Changing Regulation at the School of Law, and from 2010 – 2012, taught Microfinance and Access to Finance for the Global Poor as an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.

James, who has been practicing law since 1981, currently is a member of the law firm Mayer Brown, LLP, where he has been a partner since 1998. From 1997 – 2004, he was the Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s New York office, and also served as the firm’s Global Practice Leader from 2004 – 2008. He brings extensive knowledge in corporate and financial strategies and is a highly regarded member of both the legal and business communities. James also serves on the Board of Ethan Allen Interiors, Inc., where he is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.

As Communications Manager, Sarah builds brand awareness and strengthens fundraising efforts through content development, media relations, and digital marketing and fundraising.

Sarah brings seven years of experience in communications and marketing, digital strategy, and project management and nearly a decade in the nonprofit sector. She loves leveraging compelling storytelling and data-driven digital tactics to help raise the profile of BRAC’s programs, attract funding, and boost its impact.

Prior to joining BRAC, Sarah worked in program management, marketing, and business development at local NGOs in Nicaragua and Brazil and spent two years working in the education sector in Mexico and the U.S. She holds a B.A. in International Relations from Western Washington University with minors in Business and Spanish.

Meghan plays a key role in enhancing BRAC’s online presence in North America. She boosts brand awareness and fuels fundraising efforts with innovative digital marketing strategies.

Before joining BRAC USA, Meghan honed her skills at the American Health Information Management Association and the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. There, she managed multi-channel marketing and membership campaigns, successfully increasing conference attendance and growing association membership.

Lynnelle Evans is a Senior Manager on the Business Development team at BRAC USA. She contributes to the growth of BRAC’s North American bilateral portfolio through the development and management of proposals to US and Canadian government agencies. Lynnelle previously served as BRAC USA’s Senior Manager for Humanitarian Programs, mobilizing resources and managing grants in support of BRAC’s humanitarian programs globally.

Prior to joining BRAC USA, Lynnelle worked for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome as well as for the WFP Somalia Country Office, where she managed a multi-year joint WFP UNICEF resilience program. Lynnelle also worked with the International Rescue Committee in Pakistan and International Medical Corps in Sudan, Afghanistan, and Washington, DC.

As Director of Business Development, Lauren Godfrey leads the development of and oversees the US Government and Canadian Government portfolio for BRAC. Lauren drives partnerships, manages proposal development, writes proposals, and supports start-up of programs. Prior to her role as Director, Lauren supported BRAC’s education and youth portfolio globally in the technical areas of early childhood development, education in emergencies, accelerated and alternative education, and skills development.

Before joining BRAC USA, Lauren managed USAID-funded cooperative agreements and contracts at EnCompass LLC and World Learning. She has expertise in program design, gender and social inclusion, capacity development and systems strengthening, training and facilitation, monitoring and evaluation, and project management.

Emily Gosselin is the Senior Manager, Corporate and Foundation Partnerships at BRAC USA, where she oversees a multi-million dollar portfolio of agriculture and skills development projects in Africa and Asia and supports North American business development for BRAC International’s $200 million USD microlending portfolio.

Emily previously worked in global operations at One Acre Fund in Kenya, a social enterprise and microcredit provider working to alleviate poverty in rural Africa. At OAF, she helped rapidly scale new policies and processes across an organization spanning more than eight countries, impacting hundreds of staff and over 400,000 clients.

As Director of Corporate and Foundation Partnerships, Devon leads a talented team with a successful track record in fundraising for BRAC’s programs globally. These programs include BRAC’s early childhood development; education; gender equality; health; humanitarian; agriculture, food security, and livelihoods; climate change and emergencies; ultra-poor graduation; youth empowerment; and skills development programs. Devon also leads BRAC’s global advocacy efforts to expand equitable access to play-based early childhood development and education programs to the most marginalized children.

Before joining BRAC in 2016, Devon was Head of Education at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). She also worked for USAID’s Center for Education where she worked across the Agency’s education portfolio to design, monitor and evaluate education programs for children and youth worldwide. Devon holds master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in Latin American and Latino Studies and Spanish from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

As the Regional Advisor for Youth Empowerment, Carrie provides technical support to BRAC International countries in Africa on youth programming, including program design, proposal development, and quality program implementation. She is based in East Africa.

Prior to joining BRAC, Carrie was the COO of Kepler, an innovative higher education program serving vulnerable students in East Africa. Carrie led the drive to prepare for expansion and ensured graduates were ready for transition to employment. Carrie was also the inaugural Country Director for the Akilah Institute for Women in Bujumbura, Burundi. She started with Akilah as the Academic Director in Rwanda.

Before beginning her work in East Africa, Carrie served as the National Program Director of Girls for a Change for seven years, overseeing strategy and program implementation. She also served two terms in the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, worked for the Girl Scouts of Silicon Valley, and was a consultant to NGOs for more than seven years.

Carrie earned a Master’s in International and Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Human Rights Education from the University of San Francisco. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Michigan State University. She is also an American Association of University Women Career Development grant recipient.