As managing director of Climate, Health and Development at GHV, Temina works with the Climate, Agriculture, Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition Teams. Within her portfolio, she supports partners including the Gates Foundation, WWF and Clean Air Fund among others, to reach their strategic objectives in strategy development, program implementation, policy change, agenda setting, and resource mobilization.

Temina has worked in the knowledge and innovation for development sector for almost 15 years. She specializes in developing and implementing policy-change efforts, particularly through multi-stakeholder analysis, coalition building and partner engagement. She is keenly interested in the intersection between policy change and innovation adoption in the areas of climate, nutrition and agriculture.  

Previously, Temina served as regional director for South Asia with CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly funded multilateral agricultural research organization with an annual budget of almost $900 million. She also worked with the Aga Khan University and several universities in Canada, establishing strategic frameworks for ambitious $1 billion-dollar fund development efforts and large-scale programmatic and operational growth.  

Temina holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University and Schulich School of Business at York University, an MA in development communication studies from University of Calgary and a BA in international politics from University of Alberta. She has lived and worked in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam. She currently resides in the United Arab Emirates.  

Outside of work, Temina enjoys reading, running, and snorkelling. She recently took up tennis again after a decades-long hiatus.

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Areas of Expertise:

• Strategic planning and program development

• Policy advocacy and public affairs

• Multi-lateral stakeholder engagement

• Change management

• Government relations

• Coalition building