HCRI Speaker Series: Responding to Emergency Crises - personal reflections

HCRI Speaker Series: Responding to Emergency Crises - personal reflections

By Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

Date and time

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:00 - 16:00 GMT+1

Location

Room A2.6 Ellen Wilkinson Building

The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom

Description

For this HCRI Speaker Series we will be joined by Gareth Owen OBE, Humanitarian Director for Save the Children. Gareth has worked in the aid sector for 25 years. He joined Save the Children in 2002 as an emergency adviser and became Humanitarian Director in 2007. He has led Save the Children’s responses to every major emergency over the past decade, most notably the Iraq conflict, the Asian tsunami, Cyclone Nargis, Haiti, Pakistan, East Africa, Niger and the Philippines. Gareth was awarded an OBE in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to emergency crisis response abroad. In this Speaker Series event, Gareth talks about his work in humanitarian responses over the last two decades.

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We are a leading global centre for the study of humanitarianism and conflict response, global health, international disaster management and peacebuilding. Bringing together the disciplines of medicine and the humanities to achieve these goals, HCRI aims to facilitate improvements in crisis response on a global scale, while providing a centre of excellence for practitioners in emergencies and conflicts.

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