Lan Mercado

Director of Catalyzing Scale through Evidence (CASCADE) – CRS

Sustaining Member

Lan Mercado is the CRS Director of Catalyzing Scale through Evidence (CASCADE). She has over two decades of experience in senior leadership positions with INGOs where she led organizational change and managed large and complex development, humanitarian and conservation portfolios, working with diverse teams across geographies. Lan served in various senior roles in Oxfam including Co-Director for Strategy and Feminist Futures, Asia Regional Director, Deputy Director for Global Campaigns and Philippines Country Director. Prior to joining CRS, she was World Wide Fund for Nature’s Asia Pacific Regional Director. She also served as an Advisor to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). She is known as an innovative and pragmatic visionary with an empowering and facilitative leadership style. Lan has a B.A. in Communications and has done post-graduate studies in sustainable development and environmental science and management. She was a fellow at the Transnational NGOs Initiative of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.