Luis Martinez

Communications Specialist with over 19 years of experience in SBCC/IEC/IPC, training, and HR development. His current post as SBCC Senior Technical Advisor for the USAID funded Transform/PHARE project is based in Abidjan, where he provides technical assistance to local staff implementing short-term innovative SBCC approaches to increase demand for Family Planning in Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire; he’s also liaison with partner organizations of Trasnform/PHARE from IDEO.org and Camber Collective. He has a M.A. from the University of New Haven, which he obtained while holding a Fulbright Scholarship. He is fully bilingual English-Spanish, and speaks French and Portuguese.