Speakers

Kathryn Striffolino is the Director of Humanitarian Policy for Mercy Corps, leading the organization’s humanitarian policy work in the US and globally. She formerly served as Senior Manager for Humanitarian Policy and Practice at InterAction where she represented collective humanitarian NGO perspectives within the UN humanitarian system at all levels, led the team responsible for humanitarian country response operational, policy and advocacy support for the humanitarian NGO community, the IASC’s work on bureaucratic and administrative impediments, and InterAction’s work on sanctions, counterterrorism and financial access. Previously, Katie worked for Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee where she worked on international human rights crime investigations, crisis prevention and response research, analysis and advocacy, and humanitarian negotiations, access and protection. She has a BA in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of New Hampshire and an MA in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration from the University of London.

Kathryn Striffolino is moderating the session(s) mentioned below.