GLOBAL COFFEEPLATFORM

Guillermo Alvarado Downing

Country Manageremail me

Guillermo Alvarado joined GCP on January 27, 2020 as Honduras Program Manager, he brings into GCP extensive experience in rural development. Has worked as project officer and senior advisor for IICA Honduras, USAID Honduras, Millenium Challenge Account Honduras, was Minister of Agriculture of Honduras between 1999 and 2002 leading the recovery of the Honduran agriculture sector from Hurricane Mitch, Excecutive Director of the International Regional Animal and Plant Health Organization (OIRSA) for Central America, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Belize and Panama. He is a graduate from El Zamorano and has a BSc and MSc in Food and Resources Economics from the University of Florida, and training in policy management at the Harvard Institute for International Development, in international trade at the CBI from the Netherlands, and Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.

Vivian Tejeda

Operations Manager Hondurasemail me

Vivian is a marketing and international business specialist with several years of experience in the coffee industry. She has worked for the Honduran Coffee Institute as a promotion coordinator, promoting Honduran coffee locally as well as in the Asian, European, and American markets. 

Vivian is the co-creator of an award-winning promotional campaign, “Mi Café Es Hondureño”, and is herself a coffee producer and a barista, with her own brand of roasted coffee.

As Operational Manager of the Sustainable Coffee Platform of Honduras, she works closely with members and ensures the proper daily functioning of the platform, driving forward the platform’s key decisions and work plans.

Vivian holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Management from the EUDE Business School of Spain and a degree in marketing and international business from the Central American Technological University UNITEC. She speaks Spanish and English and she is based in Campamento, Olancho, Honduras.