Christos Christou
International President
Biography
Dr Christos Christou is the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 2019. He first joined MSF in 2002 as a doctor, working with refugees in his home country of Greece, then going on international assignments to Zambia and Malawi to provide care for people with HIV, and has worked as a surgeon in South Sudan, Iraq, Cameroon and Greece. Dr Christou graduated from the Aristotle University Medical School and holds a PhD in surgery from Kapodestrian University in Athens.
Organisation
Médecins sans Frontières
NGO
Speaker session
Boosting synergies for humanitarian action and civil protection in crisis response
Aquarium
This session will showcase concrete examples of successful cooperation and synergies between humanitarian action (HA) and civil protection (CP) and discuss how these examples can be replicated in other contexts. The session will debate the current level of integration of HA and CP actions and highlight the tools that are available to create synergies at EU-level (e.g. HA funding, EHRC, UCPM, rescEU, and ERCC). Finally, the session will analyse how other actors, such as member states and regional disaster management organizations, manage and contribute to the interactions between the HA and CP, and showcase what the benefits to these interactions are, seen from the perspective of humanitarian partners.
Hans Das
Director Emergency response and resCEU
Organisation
DG ECHO
EU institutions
Speaker session
Boosting synergies for humanitarian action and civil protection in crisis response
Aquarium
This session will showcase concrete examples of successful cooperation and synergies between humanitarian action (HA) and civil protection (CP) and discuss how these examples can be replicated in other contexts. The session will debate the current level of integration of HA and CP actions and highlight the tools that are available to create synergies at EU-level (e.g. HA funding, EHRC, UCPM, rescEU, and ERCC). Finally, the session will analyse how other actors, such as member states and regional disaster management organizations, manage and contribute to the interactions between the HA and CP, and showcase what the benefits to these interactions are, seen from the perspective of humanitarian partners.
Muslim Jamalzada
Chair Person
Organisation
Organization of Humanitarian Aid and Rehabilitation
NGO
Speaker session
Boosting synergies for humanitarian action and civil protection in crisis response
Aquarium
This session will showcase concrete examples of successful cooperation and synergies between humanitarian action (HA) and civil protection (CP) and discuss how these examples can be replicated in other contexts. The session will debate the current level of integration of HA and CP actions and highlight the tools that are available to create synergies at EU-level (e.g. HA funding, EHRC, UCPM, rescEU, and ERCC). Finally, the session will analyse how other actors, such as member states and regional disaster management organizations, manage and contribute to the interactions between the HA and CP, and showcase what the benefits to these interactions are, seen from the perspective of humanitarian partners.