Who we are

Anjatiana Radoharinirina is a forest and environment engineer with 9+ years of experience in the field of sustainable development in Madagascar. She is co-founder and coordinator of AIKA, the Malagasy Youth Alliance for Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Desertification. This alliance brings together 45 youth organizations, representing nearly 50,000 individuals.

Guided by a strong vision of mobilizing youth to strengthen Madagascar's climate resilience, she enabled over 2,700 young people in 2024 to actively engage in the fight against climate change and biodiversity preservation. Since 2021, she has represented Malagasy youth as an official delegate at the UNFCCC COP and also serves as a One Young World ambassador for Madagascar.

As a consultant, she supports Malagasy businesses and NGOs in their organizational growth and ensuring the sustainability of their initiatives.

As the former Technical Director of the nationally recognized SAF/FJKM NGO, she led over 20 major projects focused on climate resilience, impacting more than 2 million vulnerable people in remote regions.

Hasina Randrianjafy was born and raised in Madagascar, in the small town of Ambositra about 250 km from the capital, Antananarivo. Hasina won the Madagascar Presidential Scholarship in 2004 to pursue her education at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas where she earned her Bachelor in Environmental Science. Ambitious to contribute to Madagascar's development, Hasina returned to her country and started working at the Presidency of Madagascar, before joining a nickel and cobalt mining company called Ambatovy, an international joint venture established in eastern Madagascar.

Hasina's passion for water, sanitation and hygiene emerged when she joined WaterAid in 2014. She took a year out from her time with WaterAid to study for her MSc in Environmental Management from Kingston University London under the prestigious Chevening Scholarship. Six years after joining WaterAid, Hasina is currently Advocacy Officer at WaterAid in Madagascar, supporting local governments and civil society organisations to realise everyone's rights to WASH.

Nancy started at Save the Children in July, 1996 when she created the organization's first-ever Strategic Foundations Partnership Team. Under her management, this unit grew to more than $35M in private grant funding annually. During this time, she also helped to start Save the Children's presence in the Gulf Region working with large scale foundation partners in the UAE. In 2015, she became the agency's Vice President, Resource Development and Chief Development Officer, overseeing a staff of more than 200 with over $300M in private revenue. In July, 2018, as Executive Director, she led Save the Children's Promise of Childhood Campaign - a $120M+ centennial campaign designed to accelerate the agency's work today and ensure that they are here to meet the needs of children tomorrow. From 2020 until 2024, she was on secondment to Save the Children International as the Senior Advisor of Global Philanthropy, working with members across the Save the Children movement to grow their private philanthropic resources.

She has just launched Pinnacle Philanthropic Advisors, an advisory service providing CEO and Board workshops, Major Donor trainings and mentoring to non-profit leaders. In addition, her advisory service provides high level strategy development and campaign expertise.

She is on the Board of Advisors at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and also on the boards of Right to Play, and Tatirano Social Enterprise in Madagascar. She is the mother of four adult children and two grandchildren. She is an avid skier, cyclist, golfer and tennis player. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family and friends and being in the outdoors.

Originally from South Africa, Cody is now based wherever he can get into the mountains quickly for a day's hike and some birdwatching. When he isn't exploring nature, Cody is doing some freelance financial service consultancy following his former position as Senior Manager doing the same at KPMG UK in London.

Having served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for SEED Madagascar, a UK based charity with operations in southeast Madagascar, he is thus able to draw on a varied background to provide support and advice to staff of Tatirano.

Ilan works as an Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering Design at University College London (UCL), where he completed his PhD in rainwater harvesting technologies in 2014. He is a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Industry Fellow as well as the Director and founder of SAIL (Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Lab), based in Rothamsted Research, one of the leading agricultural institutions in the world.

In 2003 he founded the International Renewable Resources Institute (IRRI-Mexico), which he led for a number of years, an NGO specializing in the promotion of renewable energies and sustainable water practices throughout rural and urban areas in Mexico. He also sits on the board of various organisations, including Caminos de Agua in Mexico, and Tatirano Social Enterprise, Madagascar. He is also the founder and CEO of EcoNomad Solutions, a start-up specialising in sustainable agricultural solutions for small-scale farmers, including projects in the UK and across Europe, as well as in various parts of Africa. Through a number of enterprises he has also been involved in consulting, design and implementation of appropriate technologies such as rainwater harvesting, biogas and solar systems. His publications include articles, short stories and children's books related to water conservation and environmentalism.