Team

CCCID has a team of over 30 associated consultants with practical development experience, facilitation skills and technical, sector and cross cultural expertise based on work in:

  • over 30 countries;
  • all development sectors (Health, Education, Governance, Infrastructure, Environment, Gender, and Rural Development);
  • Non-Government Organisations;
  • The private sector; and
  • All levels of Government

When choosing teams we consider gender, cultural expertise, skills and experience. CCCID works to model multicultural teamwork and good reflective practice - key competencies for cross cultural work. All team members share a commitment to common core values:

  1. Cross cultural sensitivity, flexibility and adaptability;
  2. Adult learning principles;
  3. Participatory approaches to learning, project work and engagement; and
  4. Strengths-based capacity development.

Associate consultants

Miriam Lumb - Communications and Marketing Specialist,

Miriam's background in marketing and communications took her to Tonga in 2003-4 as an AYAD and then to Austraining International as marketing and alumni coordinator on the AYAD Program. Miriam's experience includes business development with SAGRIC / Coffey, Consular Policy with DFAT, and emergency preparedness with Red Cross.

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Dr. Siew Fang Law - Associate

Born in Malaysia, and educated in Canada, the UK and Australia, Siew Fang is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Bahasa Indonesia, Malay and English. She has undertaken training and conmsultancy work for Governments, UNESCO, UNDP, Mandala Foundation 
UNICEF Malaysia, Save the Children Indonesia, Red Cross Australia, RMIT Vietnam and worked in culturally diverse settings from Banda Aceh to Eastern Canada.  As well as coordinating the masters program in international Community Development at Victoria University she teaches uiniversity programs in 'Working and Managing across cultures', 'Negotiating Transnational Agreements' and 'Intercultural Conflict Resolution'. Siew Fang is a practising mediator with the Dispute Settlement Centre of Victoria specialising in intercultural disputes. Her PhD examined the impacts of culture and language on conflict.

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Vân Nguyen – Associate

Born in Laos to an ethnic Vietnamese family, and coming to Australia as a refugee in 1980 via Thailand, Vân is both linguistically and culturally fluent working in Vietnamese, Lao, Thai and English. She moves seamlessly between cultures in her work as a cultural / language interpreter, community development worker, educator and trainer in the health and community services sector in Australia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.

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Sue Gleed – Research and Design Associate

With over 30 years experience in the human services field Sue's expertise includes social policy, service planning and implementation, project management and governance, community development, capacity building, teaching and training. Her roles have spanned academia, government and non-government in the Northern Territory, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland and have covered health, education, governance and rural development sectors. She understands service delivery from a government policy perspective as well as multi-stakeholder program implementation. As a senior lecturer in social work and community development, Sue designed undergraduate and postgraduate programs, sat on the academic board and managed international student programs. The NGO sector and its changing role in service provision and relationship with government is Sue's area of special interest, as reflected in her MA and PhD research.

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John Twyman–Information & Communications Technology consultant

John is an ICT professional with training and education experience in Tertiary and Government settings focused on capacity building, mentoring and skills sharing. John collaborates with people to develop E-Learning and Distance Education tools to enhance learning and development opportunities for his local and international counterparts in the Pacific and China.