Who we are

Selena Lopreno joined the Health Network team in July 2023 as focal point for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. She has a background in political science and a Master of Science in global health, focused on environmental health.

Previously, Selena worked for the State Secretariat of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs on global health in multilateral bodies. Among other roles, she represented Switzerland at the World Health Assembly, the Human Rights Council, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and the UN General Assembly. Before this, she conducted research on healthy urban planning in France and worked in health promotion at the local level in Belgium.

As an Evaluation and Learning Adviser at Helvetas, David supports Helvetas colleagues at the head office and in the field in setting up Monitoring and Evaluation systems and advocates for a results-based management approach within the projects he supports.

David holds a master’s degree in Geography from the University of Bern, and previously worked with People In Need (PIN) in the Philippines, with Welthungerhilfe (WHH) in Germany and South Sudan, and since 2022, with Helvetas. David is experienced in conducting rapid needs assessments (market, WASH, and food), establishing global and regional results frameworks, standardising organisational indicators, outcome harvesting, setting up digital monitoring systems, as well as supporting projects during the planning phase with establishing theories of change, results chains, and translating these into logframes and M&E plans.