Your Name | Alexander Zdravkovic |
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Email Address | alexzdravkovic@googlemail.com |
Cohort Assignment | Americas Online, Winter-Spring 2024/2025 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | My primary work is as an international development and sustainability practitioner and consultant. I work on designing, implementing and evaluating complex social impact programs working with partner governments, private sector and communities. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | My role is an advisor and facilitator to others to support their development goals. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | My goals is to shift away from being an 'expert' and to more of a facilitator/partner in supporting others. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | My next area of growth is to have a much deeper understanding of systems theory and ways of thinking how to apply it. |
5. And for professional growth? | At this stage in my life, my professional growth is focused on widening my understanding of different frameworks, a better understanding of myself and to share my knowledge/expertise with others. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I have an BA in Geography and Environment from Oxford, a MSC in development management from London School of Economics and I have invested the last 15 years working internationally on a wide variety of different development projects trying to solve different challenges (i.e conflict/security, community development, girls education, climate change, food security, inequality etc). |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | I have been very influenced by international development theory & practice, monitoring & evaluation, Geography and Environment, Sociology and Sustainability Studies. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I do not have a set philosophy but my view of life is that we are all very interconnected within the system of life. Human's play both a stewardship and an actor role in working within our planetary boundaries and to support life. |
Date Created | November 19, 2024 |