Our Team
Our team consists of experts in capacity building related to the fields of development, media, culture and art. Our team members have been working with various international organisations and institutions including the UN and EU. They combine multidisciplinary educational backgrounds with technical skills and culture sensitivity. By means of being dynamic facilitators, SAPD’s experts focus on creating learning opportunities that support the empowerment process of the participants to achieve their own potential as effective civil society actors and, simultaneously, helping partners to generate solid development projects and programs, advocacy action plans, organisational development and alliance building.

Dr. Thair Ismail:
Founder & General director

Shaima Madboly: Founder & Executive director

Stina Bengs: Expert in cultural peacebuilding
Afrah Nasser: Digital activism- Yemen expert
Igor Stankovitch: Trade union activism & Local representative, Belarus
Maryana Sych: Local representative, Ukraine
Vadim Z. : Local representative, Russia
Juan A. Olmedo: Local representative, Spain
Yahia Soliman: Digital communicator
Johan Gustafsson: Non-violant reporting expert, Sweden