Executive leader trusted to deliver at scale in the world’s most complex crises

Extensive experience guiding executive teams and boards through uncertainty, competing obligations and significant institutional risk. Leadership of humanitarian ethics and access has involved negotiating operating space, balancing security and legal constraints, and making consequential decisions where organisational purpose and human welfare are at stake. This experience includes representing institutions publicly and defending difficult decisions under sustained political and media scrutiny.

A record of building global preparedness, response and risk-management systems that enable organisations to act decisively and deliver at scale. This work has established clear responsibilities, decision thresholds and escalation routes, strengthened oversight of substantial emergency portfolios, and embedded learning into organisational practice. It also requires aligning headquarters, country leaders, donors and partners when authority is distributed and agreement cannot be assumed.

Board and sector leadership experience includes serving as a board member of Kobo, the organisation behind KoboToolbox, and as founding board chair of the Collaborative Cash Delivery (CCD) Network. Participation in the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Emergency Directors Group has brought expert judgment to decisions and coordination across the humanitarian sector. Together, these roles demonstrate experience in technology governance, collaboration between institutions and collective decision-making during major crises.