EDGE Team

Gayle has designed, managed, monitored and evaluated international development projects for more than 25 years. She joined Agriteam in 1991 as vice-president.

Mr. Innes is a development economist and senior project manager with more than 20 years of experience directing, managing and evaluating successful, complex, multi-million dollar international development assistance projects. His career history has focused on a number of different development challenges similar to the work of EDGE including overseeing a governance reform initiative that brought about improvements in Ukraine’s agriculture sector and another that introduced e-governance to the Philippines. Countries of Experience: Ukraine, Philippines, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Brunei, Canada.

20+ years of experience managing reforms in developing and transition countries as diverse as Latvia, Russia and India; has worked in Ukraine for 6 years. Key areas of expertise: strategic planning, governance, rule of law and criminal justice.

13 years of professional experience in macroeconomic research, finance, investment banking, government reforms and technical assistance projects. After Maidan, worked in reform facilitation teams at MinEconomy and MinFin. Prior to becoming Deputy Director of EDGE, Daria was overseeing EDGE project teams working on the State Fiscal Service reform and on the governance reform at the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers. Key areas of expertise: governance, public finance, banking sector, capital markets, state-owned enterprises.

Vitaliy is responsible for providing support to EDGE management team by delivering updates on political and macroeconomic developments, analyzing the context and results of reforms, gathering various statistical data and producing comprehensive reports, coordinating initiatives on behalf of EDGE management team as well as providing support at public events and meetings.

Provides monitoring and evaluation of projects. Manages trainings on implementation of the Result-Based Management (RBM) methodology for project offices, ministries and EDGE partners.

Responsible for reforms of (i) the childcare system and deinstitutionalization, (ii) probation service. Ms. Novokhatnia has 8 years of professional experience in project management, development and overseeing implementation of project initiatives in the area of criminal justice, in particular for juveniles.

Ms. Rogers earned her Master’s degree in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics and specializes in the design and delivery of evidence-based international gender equality initiatives and strategies. To EDGE she brings this knowledge and experience as well as her toolbox of innovative gender mainstreaming tools, including gender-based policy and program analytical frameworks. Countries of Experience: Countries from the continents of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Canada.

With more than eighteen years of experience in collaborating and managing international technical cooperation development programs, Ira has extensive experience in complex project management, program design, HR and budgeting. Under EDGE, she runs PRSM mechanism with overall responsibility for its development and management. Within the Mechanism, Ira manages reform initiatives along with PRSM staff.

Daria is responsible for reformers contracting; reviews and approves experts’ monthly narrative reports.

Valeriia coordinates capacity development and networking events for reformers; assists PRSM team in day-to-day operations.

Alla manages the project’s finance and accounting.

Victoria helps to manage the project’s finance and accounting.

Tetyana provides assistance with various administration related issues.

Zied provides technical support to all projects and manages the project server and websites.

Vitalina deals with the project’s office administration.

Irene deals with administrative issues making sure the office runs smooth. She helps connection and communication within the office and outside it.
Irene has over 20 years of experience dealing with people of different nationalities and social backgrounds, attending to their needs and taking care of their demands.

Iryna carry out all common office duties, maintain a positive and friendly company image by acting as the first line of contact to visitors, in person, online and via telephone.

Ms. Duricic is EDGE’s Canada-based Administrative Officer and brings her extensive experience in administrating large multi-year projects, including several initiatives in Ukraine, to the project. Her role focuses on contracting, budgeting, liaising with project stakeholders, and coordinating study tours to Canada. Ms. Duricic holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics, is bilingual in English and Serbo-Croatian, and speaks conversational French. Countries of Experience: Bosnia, Croatia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Ukraine.

Dawn Robertson is the Canadian Finance Officer on the EDGE Project and is responsible for accounting for all project expenditures of the EDGE Project. This includes auditing and reconciling field and Canadian expense reports as well as preparing financial forecasts and reports for the project’s principal funder, Global Affairs Canada. Countries of Experience: Ukraine and Ethiopia.