The Business School is very pleased to announce the facilitators for the four-month Sulawesi Economic Development Project (SEDS) fall workshop in Indonesia. Launching this week, the workshops will continue to focus on applied entrepreneurship development, this time with an emphasis on the curriculum design process.

Based in North and South Sulawesi, our facilitators are working with the 7 SEDS partners to develop new and innovative applied entrepreneurship curriculum.  You can read about their adventures through their blog posts http://www.yourhumberworld.com/2014/09/seds-makassar-indonesia.html or by following them on IDI’s twitter feed: https://twitter.com/HumberIDI.

Ted Glenn, PhD. Ted is the Program Coordinator of Humber’s Public Administration Postgraduate Program.  His areas of expertise in public sector governance include legislative capacity-building, elections, executive decision-making, communications, leadership development, and competency-based education and training.  Over the past decade, Ted has worked in Bangladesh, Bermuda, Bhutan, Mexico and Tanzania on a variety of projects dealing with needs assessment and curriculum development/delivery, technical/vocational education and training policy and capacity-building, program monitoring and evaluation, and organizational change.

Kent Schroeder, PhD.  Kent is the Director of International Development Projects at Humber’s International Development Institute.  He has over 15 years of experience working on a variety of international development initiatives in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. He has worked as a project manager, trainer, curriculum designer, researcher and evaluation consultant for projects focused on governance, microfinance, HIV/AIDS, entrepreneurship and community health. He has also managed a governance and capacity building initiative with indigenous peoples in the Canadian arctic. Kent has a PhD in Political Science/International Development Studies from the University of Guelph and is Canada's first PhD graduate from a Canadian international development studies program.

Ianinta Sembiring, LL.M. Ianinta holds a Master of Laws in International Economics and Business Law from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Atma Jaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Ianinta has worked as a Coordinator for the Social Entrepreneurship Program at the Universitas Ciputra in Surabaya, Indonesia and a Mentoring Program Coordinator with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in New Delhi, India. She has experience creating and managing curriculum, facilitating workshops with university lecturers, and managing community development projects and building relationships with local stakeholders related to entrepreneurship. Ianinta is fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and native to Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Jeff May, BA, MA.  Jeff is an independent consultant based in Toronto, Ontario. In addition to providing professional training development design and consultation for clients in the corporate sector, he has also designed curriculum for, and taught leadership development, business foundations and strategy, and organizational behaviour courses at a number of post-secondary institutions. Jeff holds a Master of Education degree in curriculum and leadership from Nipissing University and an Honours B.A. in economics from Laurentian University.

We are thrilled to have the facilitators on board, and know that they will have a huge impact on the SEDS project!  Keep your eyes open for future opportunities with the SEDS project, coming up in May 2015.  For more information contact Asha Gervan, interim Manager of the International Development Institute: asha.gervan@humber.