Team

President General
Mónica Santamarina

Social media Manager
Gelsomino Del Guercio

Community Manager Africa
Esther Nyacke Ntah

Projects Director
Ana Martiarena

Communication Manager
Mercè Alonso

Community Manager Latin America
Eugenia Spoturno

Consultant
Patricio Caruso

Assistant Latin America
Montserrat Valdivia

Office Manager
Adela González

Assistant Africa
Sr. Catherine Mulwa

Coordinator Synod Project
Margot Buysschaert

Community Manager Africa
Sr. Maureen Ogundeph
Advisors

María Concepción
Steta-Gándara
Social Protection and Labor Specialist at the World Bank, previously General Director of Planning and Evaluation of the Human Development Program Oportunidades in Mexico, with over 45 years of experience in social development, working on the design, implementation and achievement of social protection and poverty alleviation programs and strategies, and on the promotion of education for underprivileged children and vulnerable groups (women, indigenous peoples, peasants, etc.). Experience in diverse settings, including managing national public programs and community-based initiatives in rural areas, communities of practice for knowledge exchange on safety net programs, between others. Work experience at the three levels of government, including municipalities with varying degrees of development and diverse regional contexts.

María Lía Zervino,
Servidora
Member of Servidoras, an association of consecrated women of the Ordo Virginum, whose charism pursues the sacramentalisation of social relations starting from women. She is a sociologist and social worker, specialised in Pastoral Communication and Integral Ecology. She has worked with vulnerable people in parish communities and then in catechetical and theological formation at diocesan level. She did research and university teaching. She was a youth animator, particularly in the field of evangelisation, focusing on evangelisation through beauty. She was Director of Justice and Peace for the Argentinean Episcopal Conference and an expert in communication for CELAM. She is also the former president of WUCWO. She is currently a board member of the Laudato si’ Movement, co-president of Religions for Peace, consultant to the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, member of the Dicastery for Bishops and of the Ordinary Council for the Secretariat of the Synod.

Agustín Salvia
Sociologist, PhD in Social Sciences, Senior Researcher at CONICET. Director of the Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina at the Universidad Católica of Argentina. Director of the Structural Change and Social Inequality Programme at the Gino Germani Research Institute of the University of Buenos Aires. Undergraduate and postgraduate lecturer in Social Research Methodology. Researcher and former coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group: Inequalities, social structure and policies. Coordinator of the Network of Social Observatories of Catholic Universities in Latin America and the Caribbean and of the Socio Anthropological and Pastoral Observatory of CELAM. Consultant to national and international organisations on social policies. Expert in studies on social structure, economic inequality, labour market, poverty and social marginality.

Sr. Anne-Béatrice Faye
Religious sister from the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception in Castres on mission in Burkina Faso for the past 8 years. She has focused her interest on the issue of women in the context of Africa and the Church. Professor of philosophy at the Saint Augustin Centre in Dakar and at the Institute of Ecumenical Theology in Rabat, Morocco. Member of the ATA (Association of African Theologians). She has been appointed member of the Theological Commission for the Synod and expert at the 1st session in October 2023.