Joan Summers
Chief Operating Officer, CODE
Ms. Summers has over 40 years’ experience as a senior manager in the field of international development with strong organizational, financial, administrative, personnel, planning and analytical skills. Ms. Summers has strategic vision with the ability to translate vision into programming options. She has extensive experience building coalitions with UN, donors, NGOs and private sector to build innovative responses to development challenges in policy, and program. Ms. Summers has a strong interest and experience in building policy and program networks and coalitions linking grassroots national and international organizations. Ms. Summers has programming experience in Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Expertise in:
• Program design and management
• Donor relationship building
• Institutional strengthening, capacity building and human resource development
• Team leadership and development
• Strategic planning
• Gender integration
• Change Management
• Safeguarding
• Security Management
• Policy Influencing