OUR TEAM
Experienced leadership, rooted in Zambia.
Jason Andean
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER
Twenty years across donor institutions, humanitarian leadership and development consulting in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Nana Mpande
Company Secretary
Lawyer and corporate governance specialist with over fifteen years across commercial law, human rights and governance advisory.
Caroline Elliot
Health and Behavioural Change Lead
Nearly twenty years designing and leading adolescent health, gender and behaviour change programmes across Africa.
Tōtāra’s Advisory Council provides independent technical oversight and substantiated guidance to the Board. Members are appointed on the basis of specific expertise relevant to our programme areas, and are expected to bring methodological rigour and academic depth to applied implementation challenges.
Advisory Council Chair & Founding Technical Advisor
Director of Engineering Design at the University of Auckland; remote sensing specialist for small-plot agriculture.
Senior Funding Advisor, Advisory Council
Former DG ECHO Programme Officer; two decades across humanitarian donor institutions, the UN and NATO.
Tōtāra was established by its founder together with a Zambian co-founding director, through a professional partnership built on shared values and direct operational experience in Zambia. It reflects a shared commitment to an organisation that is institutionally credible, locally rooted, and designed for long-term relevance.