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GEG provides the highest quality services because we match the highest quality professionals to each project. In addition to our core staff listed below, we rely on a network of humanitarian and business professionals with years of diverse experience to fill our project teams. They bring evaluation, logistics, communication, strategic, response, business, administration, finance, human resources, gender, media relations and language skills as needed by our clients. CORE STAFF Langdon Greenhalgh, CEO and Partner Iain Logan, Partner Brian Majewski, Partner Leslie VanSant, Partner Mark Slezak, Senior Consultant Kelly Johnson, Administrator PARTNERS
LANGDON GREENHALGH, CEO and Partner Langdon Greenhalgh is a professional international emergency response manager who has served as team leader for the Red Cross and other organizations in a wide range and number of emergency response operations in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. Most recently this includes operational management responsibilities for responses to the on-going conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Tsunami (Indonesia), West Africa Food Crisis (Niger) and the Darfur Refugee Crisis (Chad). Previous to his work as an independent consultant Langdon served as a manager for the International Disaster Response Unit of the American Red Cross and was responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-impact emergency response services globally. He first started with the Red Cross in 1999 and prior to joining the American Red Cross, Langdon was Executive Director of Horizon Institute for Policy Solutions, a Virginia based think-tank. Langdon completed his undergraduate work in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and received his Masters Degree in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School.
IAIN LOGAN, Partner Iain Logan has more than 18 years experience as a senior disaster response manager. His first exposure to a humanitarian action was in 1964, in the former Belgian Congo. In 1990 he was recruited into the International Red Cross through the Canadian Red Cross for deployment in the first Gulf War. He has held many high-level field and HQ positions in the International Federation of the Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) among them coordinating international assistance in major operations in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, Zaire, Iran, Algeria, Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, Southern Africa, Hurricane Mitch and Katrina, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Lebanon. He began his career with the IFRC as a Relief Administrator served as Head of Delegation in many countries and as Operations Liaison at the IFRC UN delegation in New York. He completed his service as Head of Operations and Disaster Management Development and Special Projects. An expert in international humanitarian assistance in complex, conflict and natural disasters, he served with the Red Cross in over 50 countries. Born in Scotland, but raised and educated in East Africa he is fluent in English and Swahili and also speaks French and Spanish; he holds a Diploma in Agriculture from the University of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the prestigious Canadian Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) for actions in the 1994 Rwanda Conflict.
Brian Majewski is an international policy expert with more than ten years of executive level experience in analysis, policy development, strategic planning and management. Brian has demonstrated success in negotiation, diplomacy, communications and strategic thinking; he has the ability to apply extensive professional network to build coalitions towards the fulfillment of strategic objectives in complex organizational, inter-cultural and external environments. Brian has proven results in representing a wide-array of organizational interests with executive and legislative branches of government, international and non-governmental organizations and leaders from the private sector.
LESLIE VANSANT, Partner Leslie VanSant is an expert in media relations, communication, marketing and fundraising for emergency response and development operations. Working with the American Red Cross, Leslie supported domestic and international relief and development operations: India (earthquakes, floods), Siberian Food Distribution, Turkey (earthquakes), multiple hurricanes, Mozambique flooding, Afghan Children's Fund, Measles Initiative, Egypt Air Flight 900, Y2K and 9/11. She managed the communications and public relations support of ongoing development programs in more than 40 countries and provided training to field delegates. She was critical in the development of major campaigns with donors and sponsors including Project SafeSide with The Weather Channel and Racing for Relief with Lowe's (NASCAR). She also served as President of the Great Meadow Foundation where she was responsible for strategic planning, staff, programming, publicity, community building and capital projects. She is a graduate of the University of Richmond. CONSULTANTS 
MARK SLEZAK, Senior Consultant Mark Slezak is a humanitarian response professional with extensive field experience in forced migration, post-conflict recovery and natural disaster response. Mark has been the project manager on key training and development projects with the World Food Programme, the Service Mindset Training and the Strategic Redesign of the Logistics Technical Training. Mark has worked with a range of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) designing and managing humanitarian assistance operations in Kenya, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Indonesia and the Sudan. Mark began his career with the US Refugee Resettlement Program, and has contributed to the development of the Humanitarian Reform process and the Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster. Mark holds a degree in International Relations from Tufts University and has conducted research in Development Studies at Makerere University in Uganda. STAFF
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