David Bonbright - Chief Executive

David is founder and Chief Executive of Keystone. Most recently, David directed the Aga Khan Development Network’s Civil Society Programme. As a grantmaker and manager with Aga Khan Foundation, Ford Foundation, Oak Foundation, and Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, David has sought to evolve and test innovative approaches to strengthening citizen self-organization for sustainable development as an alternative to prevailing bureaucratic, top-down models of social service delivery and social value creation.

While with the Ford Foundation, he was declared persona non grata by the apartheid government in South Africa. In 1990 he returned to South Africa and entrepreneured the development of key building blocks for civil society, including the first nonprofit internet service provider, the national association of NGOs, the national association of grantmakers, and enabling reforms to the regulatory and tax framework for not-for-profit organisations.

Andre Proctor - Programme Services Director

Andre is the Keystone partner who leads on the development of the technical support infrastructure for Keystone reporting – materials, workshops, and certification of technical support providers.

Andre has an academic background in African History and Development Studies. He has worked for more than twenty-five years in education and training, which has included research, curriculum development, publishing, and the design of web-based educational programmes. Andre has been a consultant to various museum and community-based tourism projects, including the Nelson Mandela Gateway Exhibition, Robben Island Museum, Ubunye Museum, and the Madikwe Initiative. He is the author of five series of History and Social Studies textbooks for new school curricula in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and two children’s books. He has authored materials on quality assurance for further education institutions in South Africa; designed a web-based training course for small business exporters in the SADC. He also created an e-course ‘Mobilising Resources for Sustainability’ for managers of civil society organisations.

Most recently he has developed a set of competency standards with the Sustainability Institute which will form the basis for a professional qualification framework for community-based development workers in the emerging field of Development Management and Practice.

Natalia Kiryttopoulou - Advisor and Research Associate 

Originally from Greece, Natalia studied Law in the French Universities of Caen and Toulouse where she specialised in International and European Law. Further on she moved to Spain where she completed postgraduate studies in International Commerce and a Master’s degree in International Law and Relations at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has collaborated voluntarily as a researcher with the international cooperation department of Intermon Oxfam (Spain). In November 2006, Natalia joined the Keystone team, first as a Research Intern and, since January 2007, as an Advisor and Research Associate.

Natalia's current work involves strategic research on performance measurement and reporting of developmental processes and the use of current ICT developments for enhancing the accountability of citizen organizations to their constituents. As a Keystone advisor, she also assists in the provision of services to citizen organizations and philanthropic institutions for learning, planning, and reporting with their constituents, in an ecology of actors, for significant and lasting social change.

Cassie Boyd- Executive Assistant

Cassie joined Keystone in October 2007 after completing her MSc in International Management from King’s College London.  Originally from the United States, she pursued her BA in Sociology and Women’s Studies at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Cassie’s role at Keystone involves several levels of administrative and office management duties.  She is responsible for maintaining Keystone’s finances, and contributes to business development and communications projects.

Associates

Rikky Minyuku - Associate

Rikky Minyuku is a development practitioner in South Africa. After studying law and democratic governance at the University of Cape Town, she became the lobbying officer at the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, conducted research in forming the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, and co-founded a consortium of young development practitioners providing training, research and organizational development support to emerging development organizations.

In 2001 she joined the South African Human Rights Commission as a constitutional legislation officer. She guided the development of the Commission’s programme on constitutional legislation and led a research team on contested areas of the equality legislation.

She has continued her work in development support since 2000 and became a full-time consultant in 2004. As a consultant she has worked with a range of NGOs, public sector institutions and donors. She became a Keystone associate in July 2005. Rikky is completing an LLM focusing on the human rights responsibilities of corporates in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Method Trustees

Srilatha Batliwala is an Indian feminist activist and researcher.  She was born in Bangalore, in South India, in 1952, and holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Science, Bombay. She is currently Civil Society Research Fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations in Harvard University.  Prior to this, Batliwala was a Program Officer in the Governance and Civil Society Unit of the Ford Foundation in New York, handling programs related to strengthening international civil society and the nonprofit sector in the United States. Before joining the Ford Foundation in late 1997, she worked for nearly twenty five years in India in a range of social change and gender justice activities that spanned grassroots organizing, advocacy, and research, with a deep commitment to gender equality and the women’s movement in India. 

Her work experience includes the co-founding of SPARC (1984-88), a Bombay-based NGO that organized and mobilized pavement and slum dwellers – particularly women – to struggle for sustainable, people-centered solutions to their housing and survival needs in the urban context.  She was also founder and state program director of Mahila Samkhya Karnataka (1989-93), a Government of India special project for women’s empowerment which was instrumental in organizing over 30,000 poor rural women into village-level collectives which fought for changes in their social, legal and political status.  She was South Asia Coordinator of DAWN (1993-96), the network of Southern feminist researchers and activists, and set and headed the Women’s Policy Research and Advocacy Unit (1994-97) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. 

Her key achievements include building autonomous community-based organizations of poor women, operationalising the concept of empowerment in grassroots work with both urban and rural women, undertaking pathbreaking research on the status of women in India and Asia, and contributing to several international, national and local policy initiatives aimed at women’s empowerment.  She has published extensively on a range of development and women’s issues. 

Batliwala is married to her husband of 28 years, has an adult son and daughter. After a three-year separation from her family while she worked in Ford Foundation in New York, her position at the Hauser Center has facilitated an experiment in bi-continental living she alternates three-month stints in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bangalore, India, where her family is based.

Professor Jacinto C. Gavino, Jr. is the Fr. James F. Donelan, SJ Professor of Business Ethics. He is on the core faculty of the W.Sycip Graduate School of Business (WSGSB) Master in Management Program and formerly served as its Associate Dean. He was also the former Associate Dean for Research. His major areas of interest in management are corporate strategy and marketing, family corporations and business ethics, and public administration.

Currently a director of several business firms and non-governmental organizations, Prof. Gavino was involved in telecommunications and held directorships in firms engaged in agri-business, telecom engineering, and the manufacturing and trading of industrial supplies for the domestic and foreign markets. He taught management subjects in the Management Engineering Department of the Ateneo de Manila University, in the Business Administration Department of Maryknoll College, and in the College of Public Administration of the University of the Philippines.

Prof. Gavino holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Philippines (1971), a Master in Business Administration from the Ateneo de Manila University (1984) and a Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines (1993).

Catherine A. Odora-Hoppers was educated in Uganda, Zambia and Sweden. She has served in the interagency commission on Education For All; is an expert for UNESCO (Paris), and advisor to the UNESCO Institute for Education (Hamburg). In the area of peace, she is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Global Campaign for a Culture of Peace of the Hague Appeal for Peace (New York); was a Co-Convenor of the Global Political Economy Commission, a member of the Council of the International Peace Research Association (Japan), and of TRANSCEND – a peace and development organization for conflict transformation by peaceful means. She has been a member of the External Faculty of the United Nations International Leadership Academy (Jordan), and was part of the group that prepared the UN Study on Disarmament Education submitted and approved by the General Assembly (2002).

In the area of gender, she has been a continental expert under the auspices of the OAU and provided support to African Ministers of Education and Gender. She has been a senior consultant to the World Bank under the Tanzania Human Resources Development Strategy, is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE).

In South Africa, Catherine was the Deputy Director, and later, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD) in Johannesburg. As Chief Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) she had a Corporate function as Coordinator of the Project on the Indigenous Knowledge and the Integration of Knowledge Systems. She led the work bringing together the political, scientific, policy and civil society stakeholders in the dialogue on developing the protocols, methodology, rationale, and ethical basis for the integration of knowledge systems. She served as Technical Advisor and Resource Person to the National Steering Committee under the auspices of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (Parliament of South Africa); and led the Task Team that drafted the national policy and legislation on the recognition, development, promotion, and protection of Indigenous Knowledge Systems set up by the Minister of (Arts, Culture), Science and Technology.

She is an expert for the World Intellectual Property Organization in the area of traditional knowledge and community intellectual property rights, and has been a resource person to the World Economic Forum, the Organization of African Unity, and to several ministries and organizations in South Africa on the issues around technology, ethics and innovations, indigenous knowledge and community rights in the context of education transformation, poverty and redress, the link between science and society, the Convention on Biodiversity, the TRIPs Agreement, the Berne Convention, and the UDHR.

Dr Mark Orkin was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) from 2000-2006. Before that he was the Head of Statistics SA, the South African Government statistics agency, for five years.

Dr Orkin holds a PhD in sociology from the University of the Witwatersrand, obtained in 1990. His first degree was an Honours in physics at Wits (1971), followed by a first class Honours in politics, philosophy and economics as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford (1974) and an MA in sociology at the University of Sussex (1975).

On returning to South Africa and Wits, Dr Orkin was a lecturer in philosophy and then senior lecturer in sociology for ten years. After a year as the Deputy Director of the SA Institute of Race Relations, he set up an NGO social research agency called CASE, the Community Agency for Social Enquiry in 1985 and directed it for ten years. In the latter part of this period he was also Professor in Social Research Methodology at the Management Faculty of the University of the Witwatersrand. In 1995 Dr Orkin joined the civil service as Head of Statistics SA and initiated the extensive restructuring of the department and its population census, household surveys, and economic statistics.

He has been a member of various professional associations, including the International Association of Official Statistics, the International Sociology Association and the Association for Sociology of Southern Africa. He is currently a member of the SA Certification Council, the Committee of SADC Statisticians and the Council for African Statistical Development of the UN Economic Commission for Africa.