About Us

Megan Burke

Megan Burke is a researcher for the Victim Assistance team of the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor. She is also the Deputy Director of el Centro de Estudios Internacionales in Managua, Nicaragua. Previously, she worked as a Program Officer in the Governance and Civil Society unit at the Ford Foundation and as a Program Manager for a campaign seeking to eliminate the impact of landmines in several post-conflict countries at the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA). Through site visits to UNA-USA’s Country Programs (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Mozambique and Vietnam), Megan saw first hand the negative impact of landmines and importance of effective international assistance for humanitarian relief and continued economic development.
Megan has also worked as a consultant for the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, the International Women’s Tribune Centre and ‘Cenzontle’, a women’s civic participation organization based in Nicaragua. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Yale University.

Location: Granada, Nicaragua
Languages: English, Spanish

Stéphane De Greef

Stéphane De Greef has been involved in humanitarian mine action since 2002. He worked for Handicap International (Belgium and France) on the prioritization of mine clearance tasks in Cambodia, on the development of casualties surveillance systems in Laos and Nepal, and on the implementation of the Landmine Impact Survey in South Sudan. He has been involved with Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor since 2007, managing casualty data and producing maps. His work mainly consists in reconciliating casualty datasets from dozens of countries into a single database, providing global figures and defining the profiles of casualties around the world, to better understand the threat posed by landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war.

He holds a Master’s degree in Bioengineering from Gembloux, Belgium, and specializes in Data management and Geographical Information Systems.

Location: Siem Reap, Cambodia
Languages: French, English, Khmer

Loren Persi

Loren Persi has been involved with Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor in a variety of capacities since 2003. He has organized meeting logistics, conducted research and editing on mine action funding, and in 2007 he began conducting research and editing on casualties, risk education and victim assistance. Previously, Persi was involved with the Australian Network to Ban Landmines. His current work for Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor is part of the research done by Handicap International Belgium’s Policy Unit, which produces reporting and advocacy tools regarding the human impact of mines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war and on efforts to assist survivors, their families and affected communities.

Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Languages: English, Czech