International Development Panel

Learn about the steps you can take locally to move your international career forward. All of our panel members have had international development careers and graduate training. Learn about how they got there and the advice they have for the emerging international development workforce.

SPEAKERS:

Kyle Matthews, Senior Deputy Director, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University

Kyle Matthews is the Senior Deputy Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University and a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. At Concordia he founded the Digital Mass Atrocity Preventing Lab to counter online extremism and study how social media platforms are being used as a weapon of war. He works closely with the Canadian All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and has advised Members of Parliament on issues related to international peace and security. He recently joined the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s advisory board on transatlantic cooperation for atrocity prevention. He previously worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where he was posted to the Southern Caucasus (Tbilisi), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) and Switzerland (Geneva). Prior to that he worked for CARE Canada in Albania and later at its headquarters in Ottawa. In 2011 he joined the New Leaders program at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. He is a member of the University Club of Montreal, the Montreal Press Club, the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations and the Federal Idea, a think tank devoted to federalism.

Pamela Teitelbaum, M.A.,  Independent Consultant    

In the past 17 years, Ms. Pamela Teitelbaum has gained significant experience in advocacy development, policy research and analysis, program management, human rights training design, facilitation and evaluation, and partnership/network building within the national and international NGO sector. During her time at the International Bureau for Children's Rights, and her eight year tenure at Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education and the numerous consultancies, her work has focused extensively on children in armed conflict, girls’ and women’s rights and gender equality, human rights education, and international development. She has gained significant practical experience in designing and leading program evaluations focused on the integration and mainstreaming of gender, national strategies for coordinating the NGO sector’s focus on gender equality and mainstreaming, youth engagement in international development, and girls’ and women’s rights and empowerment.  She has worked with components of the UN System, such as the Office of the UN SRSG – Children and Armed Conflict, UN Girls’ Education Initiative as well as UN Women; working collaboratively on research and advocacy initiatives, and by assessing knowledge management practices, organisational performance as well as coordination efforts to use online network technologies strategically to share knowledge and disseminate documentation.  Ms. Teitelbaum holds a BA in Political Science, with a specialization in international relations, and a Master‘s degree in Public Policy and Public Administration (International Affairs). Her Doctoral degree at DISE, Faculty of Education at McGill University is currently on hold. Her research is focused on the interplay between online network technologies, international NGO networks, and the influence these technologies have on mainstreaming gender equality into policy and programming.

Patrice Bauduhin Sarzalejo, M. Sc., Program Manager, Plan Canada

Over 8 years of experience in research, operational and management positions, involved with proposal development, planning, coordination, execution and analysis of international cooperation projects in different settings, including Senegal, Liberia, El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela, USA and Switzerland.

Patrice’s background is diverse and unique in terms of his engagement in the international development field never having really stuck with a particular programmatic area in the traditional sense throughout his career but rather jumping from theme to theme as each opportunity presented itself, while at the same time keeping a keen interest in Sustainability and Human Rights issues and particularly Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Having studied a double major in IDS and Psychology at McGill University, he went on right away to continue his studies at the University of Montreal with a Masters in International Studies. Having little hands on experience at the time of his graduation from his Masters, a series of internships, volunteerships and small roles in project/program management ensued in the next few years including in the Organization of American States, the UN Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights, and Amnistie Internationale – Canada, among others where he began navigating the complicated world of international development. At one point, he even decided to give the private sector a chance and worked for a marketing intelligence firm, dealing with Local Development Agencies mostly in developed countries. After a couple of years, he returned to the more traditional ID sector as part of a group of Volunteer Cooperants sponsored by the Government of Canada, and went on to get field experience in Honduras and El Salvador for two years with Oxfam-Quebec, working directly with local implementing partners as Capacity Development Advisor, particularly with programs being funded by ONE DROP to tackle WASH issues but which included interventions in micro-finance, micro-entrepreneurship, social arts and food security. Since, 2012, Patrice has been based in Ottawa serving as Program Manager with Plan Canada as part of a specialized unit supporting community health prevention programs in infectious diseases, funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and dealing with Program Management, Strategic Development, Quality Assurance Monitoring, Partner Management, Knowledge Management, Business Development and more.