Tim Frankenberger, President
tim@tangointernational.com
Timothy Frankenberger, President and co-founder of TANGO International, has over 25 years of experience in international development activities. He has extensive experience in project design, monitoring and evaluation, food and livelihood security assessments, and policy analysis. He previously was the Senior Food Security Advisor and Livelihood Security Coordinator at CARE for 6 years. While at CARE, he provided strategic technical support and guidance in food and livelihood security programming to 61 CARE country offices. Prior to this he was a farming systems research specialist at the University of Arizona for 8 years. He has published numerous articles on household food security and is considered an expert on livelihood approaches.
Timothy received a B.S. in Anthropology from Iowa State University. He received an M.A. in Anthropology with a minor in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kentucky. Timothy also carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Kentucky in Anthropology with a minor in Agricultural Economics. Tim has experience in more than 30 countries, including Egypt, Mozambique, Philippines, Uganda, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Haiti, Mali, Indonesia, Tanzania, Sudan, Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, Nepal, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Senegal, Botswana, Mauritania, Lesotho, Liberia, and Nigeria. Bruce Ravesloot Vice President bruce@tangointernational.com
Bruce Ravesloot specializes in program design and strategic management, monitoring and evaluation capacity and systems development, and community-based development approaches. His main thematic areas of expertise are food and livelihood security, disaster risk management and post-disaster rehabilitation, mobility and migration, climate change adaptation and integration, differential vulnerability, sexual reproductive health, and HIV prevention and treatment scale up.
Bruce holds a M.A. in European Studies and a drs. in Public Administration and Public Policy. He has held staff and advisory positions with national NGOs in Thailand, and international NGOs and regional UN bodies in Asia and the Pacific. Bruce is based in Bangkok and has work experience in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam. He is currently serving as CARE International’s Senior Climate Change Adaptation Advisor for Asia on a part time basis. Richard Caldwell, Executive Director richard@tangointernational.com
Richard Caldwell, co-founder of TANGO International, has eighteen years experience in project design, monitoring and evaluation, livelihood security and natural resource assessment, land-use planning, ecology, and agronomy in the U.S., Africa, and Asia. He has worked extensively as a consultant for CARE and other non-government organizations and spent five years as a natural resources and agricultural project manager in West Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Richard received his B.S. in Biology at the University of New Mexico. He holds an M.S. in Range Ecology and an M.S. in Agronomy, both from the University of California, Davis. Richard has experience in over 25 countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde Islands, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Jeanne Downen, Vice President Tucson Office
jeanne@tangointernational.com
Jeanne has over 22 years of experience in international development, including the areas of food and livelihood security, program design, HIV/AIDS, local capacity building, refugee/displaced persons programs, post-conflict transition, urban programming, governance, general management, training and facilitation, and strategic planning. She formerly held several senior management positions in CARE, including acting director for HIV/AIDS, director of the Partnership and Household Livelihood Security unit, and Regional Manager for East Africa, in addition to 10 years of country office experience in south Asia and east and southern Africa.
Jeanne holds an MIA in International Affairs from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from the State University of New York. In addition to her international experience, she has worked in the US House of Representatives, and has taught in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University as an associate clinical professor. Jeanne has experience in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Mark Langworthy, Vice-President mark@tangointernational.com
Mark Langworthy is the latest addition to the TANGO Executive Officer team. Previously he was a regular TANGO consultant while maintaining a position as an Assistance Research Scientist in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Arizona.
Mark received his BA in Economics from Grinnell College and his Ph.D. from the Food Research Institute of Stanford University. Mark has experience in Mozambique, Maldives, Cape Verde, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Guatemala, Madagascar, Angola, Sri Lanka, Niger, Tanzania, Uganda, Afghanistan, and Chad. Tim Robertson, Vice President tim.robertson@tangointernational.com
Tim Robertson's development career spans 23 years of work in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, during which time he has worked in both staff and advisory positions inside international non-governmental organizations, in national governments, as a UK-based consultant, and within the UK’s Department for International Development. He is a rural development specialist with considerable experience in evaluation, food security, governance, social protection/risk reduction and policy reform.
Tim specializes in supporting the development of policy and institutional reform processes in the rural sectors through the full range of aid instruments, working at all levels. He is an experienced and highly effective analyst, as well as an implementer of reform processes, policy dialogue and planning events. He also regularly conceptualized, designed, reviewed, and evaluated donor, civil society and government development policies, monitoring and evaluation systems, programs, and projects. Tim's work is characterized by strategic thinking, an understanding of institutions and poverty, and a change-oriented management perspective. In addition, he is an excellent communicator, both written and oral and has contributed to a large number of donor policy notes and national government policy documents. Phil Sutter, Vice-President phil@tangointernational.com
Phil Sutter has over 30 years of experience in international development, including project design, management and monitoring and evaluation. Previously Phil worked for CARE International, serving as Assistant Country Director for Bangladesh, the East and Southern Africa Food Security Regional Advisor, as well as other senior level positions. In 2001 Phil became one of TANGO’s main consultants and was brought on as an executive officer in 2008.
Phil received a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, specializing in economic development and receiving an African Studies fellowship. Phil obtained a second Masters degree in Sociology from UC Davis where he advanced to PHD candidacy. Phil has work experience in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Lesotho, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Syria.
Timothy Frankenberger, President and co-founder of TANGO International, has over 25 years of experience in international development activities. He has extensive experience in project design, monitoring and evaluation, food and livelihood security assessments, and policy analysis. He previously was the Senior Food Security Advisor and Livelihood Security Coordinator at CARE for 6 years. While at CARE, he provided strategic technical support and guidance in food and livelihood security programming to 61 CARE country offices. Prior to this he was a farming systems research specialist at the University of Arizona for 8 years. He has published numerous articles on household food security and is considered an expert on livelihood approaches.
Timothy received a B.S. in Anthropology from Iowa State University. He received an M.A. in Anthropology with a minor in Agricultural Economics from the University of Kentucky. Timothy also carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Kentucky in Anthropology with a minor in Agricultural Economics. Tim has experience in more than 30 countries, including Egypt, Mozambique, Philippines, Uganda, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Haiti, Mali, Indonesia, Tanzania, Sudan, Sri Lanka, India, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, Nepal, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Senegal, Botswana, Mauritania, Lesotho, Liberia, and Nigeria. Bruce Ravesloot Vice President bruce@tangointernational.com
Bruce Ravesloot specializes in program design and strategic management, monitoring and evaluation capacity and systems development, and community-based development approaches. His main thematic areas of expertise are food and livelihood security, disaster risk management and post-disaster rehabilitation, mobility and migration, climate change adaptation and integration, differential vulnerability, sexual reproductive health, and HIV prevention and treatment scale up.
Bruce holds a M.A. in European Studies and a drs. in Public Administration and Public Policy. He has held staff and advisory positions with national NGOs in Thailand, and international NGOs and regional UN bodies in Asia and the Pacific. Bruce is based in Bangkok and has work experience in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam. He is currently serving as CARE International’s Senior Climate Change Adaptation Advisor for Asia on a part time basis. Richard Caldwell, Executive Director richard@tangointernational.com
Richard Caldwell, co-founder of TANGO International, has eighteen years experience in project design, monitoring and evaluation, livelihood security and natural resource assessment, land-use planning, ecology, and agronomy in the U.S., Africa, and Asia. He has worked extensively as a consultant for CARE and other non-government organizations and spent five years as a natural resources and agricultural project manager in West Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Richard received his B.S. in Biology at the University of New Mexico. He holds an M.S. in Range Ecology and an M.S. in Agronomy, both from the University of California, Davis. Richard has experience in over 25 countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde Islands, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Jeanne Downen, Vice President Tucson Office
jeanne@tangointernational.com
Jeanne has over 22 years of experience in international development, including the areas of food and livelihood security, program design, HIV/AIDS, local capacity building, refugee/displaced persons programs, post-conflict transition, urban programming, governance, general management, training and facilitation, and strategic planning. She formerly held several senior management positions in CARE, including acting director for HIV/AIDS, director of the Partnership and Household Livelihood Security unit, and Regional Manager for East Africa, in addition to 10 years of country office experience in south Asia and east and southern Africa.
Jeanne holds an MIA in International Affairs from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from the State University of New York. In addition to her international experience, she has worked in the US House of Representatives, and has taught in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University as an associate clinical professor. Jeanne has experience in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Mark Langworthy, Vice-President mark@tangointernational.com
Mark Langworthy is the latest addition to the TANGO Executive Officer team. Previously he was a regular TANGO consultant while maintaining a position as an Assistance Research Scientist in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Arizona.
Mark received his BA in Economics from Grinnell College and his Ph.D. from the Food Research Institute of Stanford University. Mark has experience in Mozambique, Maldives, Cape Verde, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Guatemala, Madagascar, Angola, Sri Lanka, Niger, Tanzania, Uganda, Afghanistan, and Chad. Tim Robertson, Vice President tim.robertson@tangointernational.com
Tim Robertson's development career spans 23 years of work in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, during which time he has worked in both staff and advisory positions inside international non-governmental organizations, in national governments, as a UK-based consultant, and within the UK’s Department for International Development. He is a rural development specialist with considerable experience in evaluation, food security, governance, social protection/risk reduction and policy reform.
Tim specializes in supporting the development of policy and institutional reform processes in the rural sectors through the full range of aid instruments, working at all levels. He is an experienced and highly effective analyst, as well as an implementer of reform processes, policy dialogue and planning events. He also regularly conceptualized, designed, reviewed, and evaluated donor, civil society and government development policies, monitoring and evaluation systems, programs, and projects. Tim's work is characterized by strategic thinking, an understanding of institutions and poverty, and a change-oriented management perspective. In addition, he is an excellent communicator, both written and oral and has contributed to a large number of donor policy notes and national government policy documents. Phil Sutter, Vice-President phil@tangointernational.com
Phil Sutter has over 30 years of experience in international development, including project design, management and monitoring and evaluation. Previously Phil worked for CARE International, serving as Assistant Country Director for Bangladesh, the East and Southern Africa Food Security Regional Advisor, as well as other senior level positions. In 2001 Phil became one of TANGO’s main consultants and was brought on as an executive officer in 2008.
Phil received a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, specializing in economic development and receiving an African Studies fellowship. Phil obtained a second Masters degree in Sociology from UC Davis where he advanced to PHD candidacy. Phil has work experience in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Lesotho, Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Syria.