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.

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 full time for KALU as Head of Studies.

Arturo is a former Project Manager in a telecommunication company. After many years as a local Red Cross Volunteer in Paris he chose to leave his job to dedicate himself entirely to the humanitarian work.

He has created a business that focuses on giving IT support to NGOs, he has experience mainly in Emergencies and particularly in assessments and distributions of NFIs and Cash.

Alberto is a humanitarian worker with 16 years of field experience with the international organization Médecins Sans Frontieres, first as a logistic manager and then as an operational manager in numerous humanitarian emergency response interventions in 14 countries. In the last 10 years Alberto has served as Head of Mission in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Chad and Cameroon, being responsible for the operational strategy, implementation of activities in response to emergencies, institutional representation, security management, negotiation of the humanitarian space and advocacy. He has also recently participated in the response to COVID19 as MSF emergency coordinator in Spain.

He’s regularly putting his experience at the service of analysis and training, participating both in evaluations dedicated to guiding contextual and programmatic aspects, as well as in induction and mentoring programs to help in the development of professional skills.

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

Matthew holds a bachelor’s in nursing and master’s in public health.

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 Oceana. Matthew has worked with NGOs such as MSF, ACF and MDM, health research institutes and centres for disease control. Since 2004, Matthew has conducted and coordinated 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 get the work done to improve the health and nutrition of vulnerable populations.

A registered nurse and nutritionist, Alexandra has been working in the humanitarian field for the past 16 years with a focus on the field of public health nutrition in diverse settings (Emergency and Development) in more than 25 countries across Africa,Asia and the Pacific. She has a diploma in Tropical Medicine and a Masters in Nutrition for Global Health.

She has worked with various NGOs, such as Médecins Sans Frontières, International Medical Corps and Save the Children before she re-joined Action Against Hunger-UK in 2017.

She manages a team of nutrition assessment specialists and is, amongst others, a member of the strategic advisory groups of the Global Nutrition Cluster and Infant Feeding in Emergency core group and co-chairs the Global technical Assistance Mechanism on Nutrition Information Systems. She also coordinates a group of researchers working on the topic of Kwashiorkor. She is a guest lecturer in 6 different universities: American University of Beirut, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Westminster University, Kings College and Metropolitan University. As a LPI Certified Trainer, She has organised and co-organised several Nutrition in Emergencies trainings in different countries: Uganda, Turkey (for Syria), Myanmar, Indonesia, Lebanon, Nepal, UK for UK-MED, Fiji, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Tonga, Salomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Zandra is an expert in International Relations who has worked for governmental institutions and international and national NGOs. She has 14 years’ experience in project delivery, monitoring, evaluation and proposal-writing.

Zandra has worked closely with internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, indigenous populations and farmers, among other population groups. She has coordinated projects to improve nutrition, water and sanitation, income generating activities, psychological support, peace policies, civic culture and protection of rights.

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.

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 projects and operations for 11 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 ended his last role of country director in Madagascar few months ago and is now based in Colombia accompanying his wife that started a new role and takes care of their young daughter.

Gregory holds a MSc in Environmental-Health issues (Paris-Saclay University), a Post-Graduate Certificate in Water, sanitation and hygiene (WEDC, Loughborough University) and in Environmental management (University College Dublin).

He started to work as humanitarian officer in 2001 in Albania with Solidarites International. He then worked with various organizations such as Action Against Hunger, the French Red Cross, Solidarités International again and Unicef in multiple countries across Africa, Central America and Asia. Gregory coordinated the national response to the cholera outbreak in Haiti from 2014 to 2018 as UNICEF Emergency Chief, before joining UNICEF HQ as WASH Emergency Response Team member until February 2021. He is now with UNDP as Malaria Program Manager in Haiti.

Marie-Jeanne is a sociologist, specialised in international cooperation and development project management; she holds a Master’s Degree in international cooperation and humanitarian aid. She also completed a course in Humanitarian Action at the CERAH (Humanitarian Aid Training and Research Centre in Switzerland).

Her humanitarian experience includes 7 years of working within the Red Cross Movement in a variety of projects in Colombia. She has been trained and active with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent emergency response network in Central and South America (PADRU). She has directly worked in different phases of humanitarian and development programmes in a large spectre of sectors. She is particularly interested in participative approaches, the link between humanitarian relief and development aspects and the specifics needs and problems of children.

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.

Aitor holds a Degree in Law and a postgraduate qualification in International Cooperation and Governability. He has 14 years’ experience in Africa, Europe, South America and the Caribbean.

Aitor has worked for UNDP, CARE International, SNV, Grupo Cívico Etica y Transparencia (a member of Transparency International), the municipal government of Salvatierra (Mexico), and as an independent consultant. His areas of expertise are urban management, local development and decentralization, project coordination for cooperation and development and disaster management. He has also undertaken conflict-resolution studies and projects.

Jafeth is an artist of farming origins from Cauca, Colombia. He now lives in the Ecological Reserve ‘El Sendero Mágico’ on the outskirts of Popayan where - together with his family and friends - he works in environmental education through art.

Previously a literacy tutor and school teacher, organiser of Christian communities and youth leader at regional and national level, he has developed an in-depth understanding of social reality in Colombia. He designs and produces graphic materials such as posters, drawings and illustrations, to promote social identity and community development.