Thomas Tichar is the founder of Second Place. I’m a political economist with almost two decades of experience in international development, during which I’ve learnt to navigate systems to achieve socio-economic impact and climate resilience in different parts of the world. I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of working on market and food systems, public policy and finance in countries across Asia, Africa and some of Latin America with multilaterals (World Bank, ILO), international NGOs (Oxfam, Save the Children) and academic institutes (Wageningen University & Research, ISS-Erasmus).

I’m a mixed bag culturally as I was born in Australia to a Welsh mum and Czech dad, though have ended up spending half my life in the Netherlands; I’m best defined as a third culture kid.