Liam Bluer joined Mokoro as Projects Assistant in October 2018. His responsibilities include support to business development and proposal preparation, logistics for overseas missions, desk-based research support to various assignments, and general administrative assistance in support of Mokoro’s project portfolio and company operations. Liam has more than five years’ experience in the international nonprofit sector, having worked on educational initiatives in Thailand and Nepal, and as a campaigner in support of North Korean refugees in South Korea and the US. More recently he spent three years working at an NGO in rural Guatemala, where he coordinated programmes providing indigenous communities with early education, microfinance, and vocational training. He is fluent in Spanish.

MA (Distinction) Social Anthropology (Culture, Ethnography and Development), University of Manchester, UK (2012)