Economist, Expert in NGO Management and Expert in E-Learning.

Alberto is an Economist from the Complutense University of Madrid and has postgraduate qualifications in NGO Management and Programme Design from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. He has worked in humanitarian interventions with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, the Red Cross, Movimondo, Oxfam and Caritas.

He has focused his career on working with Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and in the field of humanitarian protection. His experience includes programme coordination, mission administration, proposal-writing, design of training materials, security and monitoring.

Sandra is an Anthropologist from the National University of Colombia. She has worked for the Mayor of Bogota’s office, the Restrepo Barco Foundation and Oxfam GB.

Sandra has worked with internally displaced people and grass-roots organizations in areas such as community work, institutional strengthening, reconstruction, humanitarian protection and monitoring. She is a tutor and has developed training material for the courses.

She has created training material for the courses.

Karin is an independent consultant with 16 years’ experience in humanitarian aid.

She has worked in over 11 countries with international NGOs such as Action Against Hunger, Doctors without Borders and the European Commission Humanitarian Office (DG ECHO) in Africa, Asia and South America. As a consultant, Karin focuses on training, project design, and evaluations.

Carlos has over 20 years of experience working in complex humanitarian situations such Afghanistan, Palestine, the Caucasus, the Horn of Africa or the Syrian refugee crisis. With an academic background on Development, his initial focus was in the area of Food and Economic Security. Yet, through his extensive work in the field with NGOs, the ICRC and ECHO he has developed technical expertise in other fields such Disaster Risk Reduction, Early Rehabilitation and Humanitarian Demining. In addition, as Programme Manager, he is used to deal with all areas of the project cycle. Currently, Carlos works for Plan International as a representative to the EU.

Amelie's passion is to empower people and organisations to share their message and to bring their contribution. She provides consulting in humanitarian & corporate social responsibility (CSR) programming and coaching in public speaking & pitching to corporate, humanitarian and government organisations.

She worked for 17 years in managing humanitarian projects and teams with Premiere Urgence, the French Red Cross, Oxfam GB, ECHO (EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection), Handicap International and UNDP in Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, Latin America & the Caribbean. In the 4 last years, she has facilitated numerous inter-governmental and governmental strategic reviews on disaster risk reduction, resilience, food security and organisational development and coached hundreds of leaders.

She is especially fond of emergency relief, empowerment of people, accountability (towards communities & donors), gender, project design (group brainstorming, logical framework, proposal development).

She is the happy mother of two children born respectively in Nicaragua and Thailand.

Working in development and humanitarian sector for more than 22 years. Currently working with UNICEF as Cash Programme Advisor, Knowledge Management and Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) advisor based in Budapest, Hungary.

I have been engaged with the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement since 2010, lately as Regional Head of Partnership Resource Development Unit and Head of Planning Monitoring Evaluation and Response Unit for the IFRC in the Americas.

Working experience in Africa (Burundi and Tanzania), Asia (Cambodia, the Philippines, East Timor, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Mongolia), Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama), Caribbean Region (Haiti), Latin America (Paraguay, Brazil), and the Middle East (Israel, Palestine, Jordan), and Europe (Hungary and Ukraine).

I am a member and Trainer of the IFRC Livelihoods Reference Centre and CaLP, and member of the Advisory board of Market in Crisis (MiC), trainer, and facilitator of the UNSCC roster. I am a member of the roster of CashCap of the Norwegian refugee Council. And I am a faculty member Faculty member of the Joint Master’s Programme in International Humanitarian Action at the DEUSTO University

Since the mid-90s, Matthew has focused on delivering primary/public health and nutrition programs across Australia, Africa, Asia, former Soviet Union, Middle East, and Oceania. Matthew has worked with international humanitarian NGOs, health research institutes and centres for disease control. Since 2004, Matthew has conducted and coordinated integrated nutritional surveys in numerous countries as part of emergency responses and therapeutic/supplementary feeding programs. Matthew is passionate about working with teams to provide the necessary tools, including training, to improve the health and nutrition of vulnerable populations. Matthew holds a bachelor’s in nursing and a master’s in public health.

Richard holds a Master’s Degree of Human Nutrition from Gent University (Belgium) with various trainings in nutrition in emergency, malnutrition measurement, assessment and classification. He has over 11 years of experience, working in emergencies and development context (Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo). He has worked with many International Organizations in different capacities such as Nutrition Consultant, Emergency Nutrition Technical Advisor, among others. He has also implemented a number of emergency nutrition projects, and has gained vast knowledge in nutrition in emergencies, measurement and classification of malnutrition, management of malnutrition, forum participation, etc.

Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera is a multi-skilled registered nurse with 17 years of experience in the field of public health nutrition working across Africa and Asia. She holds an MSc in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine. She has previously worked for Action Against Hunger-France, Doctors Without Borders, International Medical Corps and Save the Children, before joining Action Against Hunger UK as Head of Nutrition in 2017. She is a guest lecturer at the LSHTM, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Metropolitan and Westminster Universities, King’s College and the American University of Beirut.

Ana is passionate about learning; she loves meeting new people and capacity development and change management are among her main competences. This is why tutoring online is so fun for her.

She holds a degree in Law and postgraduate qualifications in International Law and in Gender and Development. She has over 25 years’ experience in development assistance and humanitarian action. She is currently based in Rome working for FAO as senior capacity development officer for emergencies and resilience, before that and as independent consultant she was dedicated to the design and delivery of training activities and material for NGOs, universities, governments, international humanitarian networks and United Nations agencies, as well as conducting evaluations and organizational learning events.

Marilise holds a Master’s degree in Development Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Languages.

Marilise is a highly experienced consultant in the international aid sector. Over the course of her 25 year career, she has managed and evaluated programmes in the fields of human mobility; protection; food security and livelihoods; cash-based interventions; disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; WASH; environment and natural resource management; education; shelter and housing; gender equality; child and youth development. She has worked in complex, volatile contexts related to conflict, and post-disaster settings.

Marilise has extensive experience in Disaster Risk Reduction. Over her career, she has guided the integration of DRR and climate change adaptation into the policies, strategies and programmes of NGOs, donors, the Red Cross/Crescent, governmental and inter-governmental entities. Highlights include founding Oxfam’s Risk Reduction and Adaptation unit and leading its first DRR and Adaptation strategy; publishing Toward Resilience: A Practitioner’s Guide to DRR and CCA (2013) for a consortium of six leading development agencies, developing the IFRC’s guidance and training pack for national societies working to strengthen community resilience, Road Map to Resilience (2016, updated 2021), and many other practitioner-oriented resources.

As an independent consultant, Marilise currently supports NGOs, donors, multi-agency consortia, and UN agencies in the areas of strategic planning, capacity-building, evaluation and learning, policy and tool development, and research.

PhD in Development and International Cooperation, Master in African Studies (School of Oriental and African Studies of University of London) and postgraduate in Applied Economy and Social Politics. José is currently working as Cash and Markets Thematic Manager for NORCAP / part of Norwegian Refugee Council and has previously worked for almost 4 years as Senior Technical Advisor at CALP Network / Cash Learning Partnership. Overall, José has more than 15 years of experience in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid combining academic and professional activity with different organisations (including Spanish Red Cross, Action Agaisnt Hunger, Spanish Agency of International Development) and roles (technical advisor, project manager, etc.), and in many different contexts (Latin America, Middle East and Sub-saharan Africa).

Stephane has been engineer and team leader for almost ten years in the aerospace industry before dedicating to humanitarian and development work. He has been managing humanitarian and development operations for 12 years within International NGOs’ at various roles from program manager to country director. He worked in over 10 countries such as Haiti, Iraq, Syria and Myanmar with Action Against Hunger, Solidarités International, Save the Children, Handicap International and CARE International. Stephane holds an Engineering Master’s degree and a Graduate Certificate of Humanitarian Leadership delivered by Deakin University. Stephane just left Venezuela where he was Country Director for various organisations and Vice-President of the INGO Forum.

Beatriz was born in Burgos, Spain. She is Agronomist with an extensive experience in international contexts. During 14 years she has been working in different countries such as Armenia, Angola, Peru, Ethiopia, Somalia, Liberia, Soudan, Palestine and Bosnia.

Since 2012 she lives permanently in Spain. In the field, she worked with Action Against Hunger, ICRC and during 7 years she has been the representative of ECHO in Palestine, Soudan and The Balkans. In Spain, she was Program Director of Plan International and Deputy Director of Action Aid. Now she is Senior Consultant in Environmental and Humanitarian aid.

Her career was mainly focused in Humanitarian Operations in particular in Food Security, Cash and Protection. She has experience as well in Rural Development, Environment and Climate Change interventions.

PhD in Peace and Development Studies from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and Doctorate of Education from the Universidad La Salle, Costa Rica. I am Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the American University of Afghanistan. I am also a visiting in Mexico, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to my experience in academia, I have more than 15 years' experience in peace-building and development. I have worked for the UN and the OSCE, and have researched on a variety of topics such as safeguarding, ethics in peace-building, and the humanitarian-peace-development nexus.

Marta has a degree in Political Science with a focus on International Relations, as well as post-graduate qualifications in International Cooperation and Development and Gender Studies.

Marta has 6 years’ experience working in the fields of human rights, development and humanitarian aid in Colombia and Central America, firstly with Peace Brigades International and latterly with Movimondo.

Alma Migens holds an MSc in Hydrology and Water Management and a BSc in Environmental Sciences. She's a seasoned WASH professional with extensive experience in humanitarian work. She has played a significant role in large-scale emergency responses in various regions, including Honduras, Ecuador, Peru, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, OPT, Yemen, and Bangladesh. Alma has supported multiple international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) as a WASH advisor and international consultant.

William brings two decades of experience in international organizations (MSF, ACF, ACTED, French Red Cross, Save the Children, NCA and UNICEF) as WASH Program Manager, Trainer, Technical Advisor, Cluster Coordinator and HQ Specialist. He worked throughout the world, in development and humanitarian contexts. Trained as a Humanitarian WASH Project Manager by Bioforce in 2002, William recently obtained a MSc in "Water and Environment Management" (University of Loughborough). He is an expert in WASH and integrated sectorial approaches, specializing in disability-inclusive WASH. William also excels as an illustrator and graphic designer.

Franck is an independent consultant with over 15 years of experience in humanitarian and development contexts in Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, such as Afghanistan, Indonesia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.

He holds a Master’s in Public Health, is a registered nurse and has a degree in Tropical medicine and International Health. He also has a Master’s in Business and Administration. He worked with Action Contre la Faim, Médecins du Monde and the World Food Programme. He has extensive experience as a Logistics Coordinator, Nutrition Programme Manager, Nutrition Emergency Coordinator and Nutrition Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Officer. As a consultant, Franck focuses on project evaluations.

Civil and logistics engineer from Polytech Clermont-Ferrand (France). He has more than 19 years of experience in international cooperation projects (development, humanitarian aid and emergencies) in more than 50 countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, mainly in the sectors of WASH, Environment and Climate Change, Food Security, Agriculture, Local Economic Growth and Development, Health and Nutrition. He has extensive experience in developing and evaluating cooperation strategies and policies. He works as an independent consultant for both International Cooperation Agencies, United Nations system, several NGOs and international engineering corporations. He is bilingual in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English.

A WASH Specialist with over 18 years of work experience in humanitarian situations. Coordinated and managed the implementation of emergency WASH Projects in Uganda, Zambia, Sudan, Philippines, Nepal, South Sudan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Yemen, Lebanon, and Nigeria.
Has an academic background in Engineering and Public Health with proven hands-on experience in planning, designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH projects.
Has also extensive experience in coordination, management, capacity building, dealing with stake holders and implementing partners. He is currently deployed as a consultant with UNICEF.

Camilo is a medical doctor, public health professional and PHd in development studies with over twenty years of experience in the coordination and implementation of emergency health responses in conflict and disaster settings. He has worked with ministries of health, donors, international NGOs and UN agencies in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East in different positions such as health cluster coordinator, technical advisor, programme manager, public health officer, health coordinator and programme manager.

Environmentalist and hydrogeologist, researcher in the field of water and environmental sciences as well as holder of the master's degree in international cooperation and humanitarian aid from Kalu, William is an expert on Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH) interventions in various contexts including emergencies. He has held several positions of responsibility related to WASH within several INGOs both at the national and international levels. His field of predilection lies in the search for innovative solutions to respond to the challenges of access to inclusive WASH services at affordable costs with a view to strengthening the resilience of the communities served.
William has extensive experience in training and support (online and face-to-face) on topics related to the provision of WASH services in emergency situations.

Óscar studied and worked as a nurse in many hospitals and EU countries before he joined MSF and started his journey specializing in the treatment of Acute Malnutrition in Emergencies, first in Angola and then Niger. He has over 10 years of experience supporting such programs and capacity building in over 20 countries working for several NGO, doing SMART surveys and other kinds of programming such as Nutrition in Ebola settings. Lately, he has advised at HQ for different charities such as ACF USA, GOAL Ireland and UNICEF UK.

Lenka Blanárová is an established expert in nutrition assessments and evaluations with more than 16 years of professional experience in humanitarian and development settings in Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean. She has a track record of technical advisory and backstopping roles for the Global Nutrition Cluster, UN agencies and multiple NGOs, notably linked with nutrition causal analyses (Link NCA) and CMAM coverage assessments. She is an experienced qualitative researcher, particularly interested in nutrition determinants and behaviour change. Ardent advocate of localisation, she promotes a genuine integration of community engagement in the humanitarian and development programming with a strong focus on community-led initiatives.

Colin holds a Batchelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, a Master’s in Water Resources Engineering, and a Doctorate in Environmental Health (rural sanitation).

He is an independent WASH specialist, adviser & consultant with more than 30 years’ NGO experience ranging from disaster/emergency response and early recovery to longer term development. His field experience ranges across some 30+ countries (in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Caribbean regions). Up to 2021 he was Senior WASH Adviser with the Swiss-based INGO Medair for just over 11 years and since then he works as a freelance WASH consultant and Director of the McCubbin Consultancy Ltd from his home in Scotland.

Alongside his field-focused WASH roles, Colin has served as a distance learning tutor with the University of London for their post-graduate Water and Sanitation study unit, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and more recently as an Associate Lecturer with the University of the West of Scotland. He has been a tutor with Kalu since 2022.

David Castellano has extensive experience in the WASH sector, having worked with various international organizations and participated in large-scale emergency responses across Africa and the Middle East, as well as in humanitarian contexts focused on development and preparedness. Throughout his professional career, he has specialized in humanitarian WASH emergencies, covering all stages from project design to implementation and management, in contexts such as refugee camps, floods, outbreaks, and armed conflicts, among others. He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Environmental Technology Management, with expertise in wastewater treatment and water purification plants, pumping stations, and distribution networks.

Is a public health professional with 15 years of experience in implementing and coordinating health and nutrition programmes in both emergency and development settings. She has worked with Action Against Hunger (AAH) country offices in more than 10 African countries, playing an active role in the design and implementation of multisectoral country strategies.
Uwimana holds an MSc in Public Health and currently serves as a Senior Nutrition Assessment Advisor at AAH UK. Her expertise includes the prevention and management of acute malnutrition, Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), nutrition in emergencies, and health system strengthening. She also has advanced skills in mixed-methods data analysis, programme quality assurance, and strategic stakeholder engagement—ensuring that interventions are context-specific, evidence-based, and aligned with global standards.

Gerard Gómez was born on December 10, 1959, in France. He is married and has two children. Mr. Gomez studied Social and Economic Sciences and holds a Bachelor's degree in Logistics Organization. He is fluent in Spanish, English, and French.

With over 35 years of experience in emergency preparedness and response, humanitarian coordination, crisis management, planning, and logistics, Mr. Gomez has played a leadership role in more than 30 emergency response missions.

From 1989 to 2002, Mr. Gomez worked with Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) in regions afflicted by armed conflicts and natural disasters.

From 2002 to 2022, Mr. Gomez served with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In 2021, he worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as Deputy Head of Office in Colombia.

Mr. Gomez is currently retired from the United Nations.

I am a senior humanitarian practitioner with more than fifteen years of operational experience across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America. My most recent roles include serving as Head of Programme, where I led multi-sector humanitarian programmes and contributed to strategic planning, partnerships and donor engagement.

Over the course of my career, I have held leadership and coordination roles with organisations including the Norwegian Refugee Council, Action Contre la Faim, Humanity & Inclusion, Save the Children, Solidarités International, UNICEF and the Danish Refugee Council. My work has focused on programme management, humanitarian coordination, emergency preparedness and programme strategy in complex crisis contexts.

My professional interests include integrated humanitarian programming, localisation and the strengthening of national and community-based actors. I also bring experience in protection-sensitive programming, gender and disability inclusion, and rights-based approaches that place affected populations at the centre of humanitarian action.

I hold a specialised Master’s degree in WASH in humanitarian contexts from 2iE and an engineering degree from ISAE Toulouse, and work fluently in French, Spanish and English.

Celia González Otálora is a humanitarian specialist with over 15 years’ experience, mainly in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Technical focus on WASH, emergency cash transfers, support to national social protection systems and market-based programming. Skilled in multi-stakeholder coordination, collaborative processes and participatory approaches. Field and technical roles with Action Against Hunger, Oxfam Intermón, Solidarités International and Humanity & Inclusion, and NORCAP deployments with UNICEF, WFP and DRC.

CALP-Certified Trainer and Participatory Video Facilitator, with solid experience designing and delivering training for NGOs, field teams and government counterparts.

Holds a Master’s in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Humanitarian Contexts (2iE) and a degree in Veterinary Science, as well as training in evaluation, gender, food security, protection, inclusive humanitarian action and social protection. Fluent in Spanish, English and French.