Duane Poppe Is DWS Program Officer for Sustainable Development and Environment
Mr Duane Alan Poppe assumed the post of Program Officer for Sustainable Development and Environment in the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Department for World Service (DWS) on 1 October 2006, for an initial period of four years. He succeeds Mr Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, currently DWS Program Coordinator.
Before taking up his new position at the LWF Secretariat in Geneva, Poppe, 56 and of US nationality, had served in several positions in DWS field offices over a period of 18 years. He was seconded from the LWF/DWS as management adviser to the Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service (TCRS), when it became an autonomous national non-governmental organization, and an associate LWF program in 2005. He was representative for the LWF/DWS Tanzania country program and director of TCRS from 1998 until 2005.
He was also country representative for the LWF/DWS Nepal program from 1994 until 1997, and from 1991 until 1993, LWF/DWS program coordinator there. He first joined the program from 1988 until 1990 as project manager for two LWF/DWS rural development projects.
In Nepal before joining the LWF, from 1981 until 1984 Poppe directed Andhi Khola, an integrated rural development project. From 1975 until 1978, he also worked there as a water engineer on various small-scale hydroelectric, rural drinking water supply and irrigation schemes.
From 1985 until 1987, he was a resident engineer in Canterbury, England, and a design engineer for water distribution system extension schemes in California, USA, from 1979 until 1980.
Married and parent of two children, Poppe holds a Master of Science degree in water resources planning and management, and a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering, from the University of California. (282 words)
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