Meet the MUNDI Team

Alexander Kosogorin - Alex joined MUNDI in November 2002 and is the centre's coordinator. He is an early years qualified teacher with 6 years classroom experience. Alex has been involved in development education for 7 years both within the UK at MUNDI and as a VSO/Save the Children volunteer in Vietnam . He holds an MA in Education and Social Justice.

His job involves fundraising, financial management, developing and implementing projects, coordinating and promoting MUNDI's work, forming partnerships with various organisations including other Development Education Centres, NGOs, Universities, Community groups, Schools, LEAs and delivering a variety of global citizenship workshops. To contact Alex please phone 0115 951 4485 or email to Alexander.Kosogorin@nottingham.ac.uk

Raul Valdivia-Murgueytio - Raul joined MUNDI in September 2005. Previously, he worked for the third sector in Nottingham and the local council in Nottinghamshire. Raul started his career in Peru, where he worked for several non-governmental organisations and the Ministry of Health.

From 2005 to 2008, Raul has been responsible for the implementation of MUNDI’s major international project called Háblame, a school linking initiative between a group of primary schools in Nottingham and Coahuila, Mexico. The aim of this project was to engage pupils and teachers in a critical debate about their role in a global and interdependent world, to develop a sense of global citizenship, and to encourage them to learn a modern foreign language at the same time. Háblame has been extremely successful in terms of achieving its goals and it has shown the full potential of school linking and the many learning opportunities this methodology has to offer.

Raul will now be focused on fundraising and also looking at some education projects. He is also interested in establishing partnerships with similar organisations like MUNDI within the East Midlands region and research centres working on global education.

Raul holds a BA in Psychology from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. in Health Promotion and Health Education from Edinburgh University. He has also recently completed a MA in Global Citizenship, Identities and Human Rights in the School of Sociology at Nottingham University. To contact Raul please phone 0115 951 4482 or email to Raul.Valdivia-murgueytio@nottingham.ac.uk

Kapka Nilan - Kapka joined MUNDI in September 2005 as MUNDI Administrator. Her role involves managing and monitoring project budgets and MUNDI's accounts, providing administrative support to the Team Leader, the Project Workers, the Trustees and various stakeholders. She is responsible for running the MUNDI resource centre and website development as well as organising publicity campaigns and events.

Her previous experience includes three years as Project Administrator of an EC funded multistakeholder trans-European Concerted Action on Brownfields and Economic Regeneration Network (CABERNET), managed by the Land Quality Management Group (LQMG), the University of Nottingham in collaboration with the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), including 54 member organisations from across Europe; Between 1999 - 2002 she worked for the British Council in Bulgaria as a Regional Project Co-ordinator on EC funded project for environmental and employment community initiatives in former steel and mining areas. Between 1995 - 1999 she worked as a National TEMPUS Project Officer with the Ministry of Education and Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has a Master's degree in Biology and English teaching certificate. She speaks Bulgarian, English, French and Russian. Her interests include languages, cultures, history, nature, environment, and arts. To contact Kapka please phone 0115 951 4485 (Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays) or email Kapka.Nilan@nottingham.ac.uk