John Ambler, PhD, MA
Vice President, Strategy
Oxfam America
Biography
John Ambler is Vice President, Strategy at Oxfam America. Within Oxfam America, he works on building up the agriculture program, identifying best practice across the Oxfam confederation, fund raising, and identifying strategic investments in Oxfam America's rights-based programming approach. He spends the other half of his time as a member of Oxfam International's Global Team, also heading up the Program Development Group under that body. The Group is responsible for leading efforts to improve program quality across all the Oxfam affiliates, to effectively implement the Oxfam confederation's initiative to coordinate and make more powerful all of Oxfam's work at the country level (Single Management System project), and to guide the overall global investment strategy of the different Oxfam affiliates.