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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

Humanitarian Policy Group Staff

Sara Pantuliano
Sara Pantuliano

Sara Pantuliano

Staff - Head of HPG - Humanitarian Policy Group
Sara is a political scientist with extensive experience in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Current research focuses on underexplored dimensions of displacement, particularly the role of land in return and reintegration processes and displacement in urban contexts. She is the Managing Editor of Disasters.
Veronique Barbelet
Veronique Barbelet

Veronique Barbelet

Staff - Research Fellow - Humanitarian Policy Group
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Veronique is a political scientist by training with a particular interest in humanitarian negotiations with armed non-state actors, protection, gender-based violence and resilience. Prior to joining HPG, she worked in the Policy Division at the World Food Programme.
Jennifer Benson
Jennifer Benson

Jennifer Benson

Staff - Programme Officer - Humanitarian Policy Group

Jennifer is the Programme Officer within the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) and Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) .


Robert Boardman
Robert Boardman

Robert Boardman

Staff - PA to the Head of HPG - Humanitarian Policy Group
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Rob is the PA to Sara Pantuliano. He has an a MA in Global Politics and Law from the University of Sheffield, and read Japanese at the University of Edinburgh. He has particular interest in ethnic conflict and reconciliation.
Tania Cheung
Tania Cheung

Tania Cheung

Staff - Communications Officer - Humanitarian Policy Group
Tania is the Communications Officer for the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) and Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN).
Eleanor Davey
Eleanor Davey

Eleanor Davey

Staff - Research Officer - Humanitarian Policy Group
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Eleanor is a historian by training with a particular interest in the political and intellectual contexts that influence humanitarian action. Prior to joining HPG, she completed a DPhil at Queen Mary, University of London, on humanitarianism and revolutionary politics in France during the Cold War.
Lilianne Fan
Lilianne Fan

Lilianne Fan

Staff - Research Fellow - Humanitarian Policy Group

Lilianne leads HPG's growing engagement on humanitarian action in Asia, including with ASEAN, Myanmar, China, and Indonesia. Her areas of specialisation include conflict and sectarian violence in Myanmar's transition; regional organisations and humanitarian action in Asia.

Wendy Fenton
Wendy Fenton

Wendy Fenton

Staff - HPN Coordinator - Humanitarian Policy Group
Wendy has over 25 years of operational, management and advisory experience in humanitarian and development programming across a wide range of sectors primarily in Sudan and Ethiopia.
Matthew Foley
Matthew Foley

Matthew Foley

Staff - HPG Managing Editor - Humanitarian Policy Group

Experienced in professional publishing in the research sector. Responsibilities include the production of all HPG publications, including HPN publications, HPG Reports and Briefing Papers.

Simone Haysom
Simone Haysom

Simone Haysom

Staff - Research Officer 2 - Humanitarian Policy Group

Simone Haysom works on issues to do with displacement and humanitarian action in urban areas, and on HPG's Civil-Military Coordination project. Simone has an MPhil in Geography from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining HPG, Simone researched the role of local institutions in facilitating urban service delivery in South Africa.

Francesca Iannini
Francesca Iannini

Francesca Iannini

Staff - Programme Manager - Humanitarian Policy Group
Francesca Iannini is the Programme Manager within the Humanitarian Policy Group. Her remit is to contribute to managing the group’s workflow and finances, with special responsibility for coordinating HPG’s Integrated Programme. Francesca has a background in development and considerable project management experience within the sector. She specialises in managing large multi-year, multi-partner projects and programmes.
Ashley Jackson
Ashley Jackson

Ashley Jackson

Staff - Research Fellow - Humanitarian Policy Group
Ashley Jackson recently joined the Humanitarian Policy Group as a Research Fellow. She has substantial emergency and humanitarian program and policy experience, including work in disaster, conflict and post-conflict situations including Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. Her current research focuses on humanitarian principles and negotiations.

Joel Kinahan

Staff - Interim PA / Programme Administrator - Humanitarian Policy Group

Joel is the interim PA to Sara Pantuliano. He has an a MA in Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies, with a particular interest in protection. Joel has also worked in a research capacity for HPG.

Simon Levine
Simon Levine

Simon Levine

Staff - Research Fellow - Humanitarian Policy Group

Simon spent many years working for NGOs in Mozambique, Cambodia, Tanzania and Burundi, before working as a consultant based in Uganda for nine years. He specialises in livelihoods and vulnerability analysis, land rights, and in early response in humanitarian crises.

Irina Mosel
Irina Mosel

Irina Mosel

Staff - Research Officer - Humanitarian Policy Group

Irina has experience in humanitarian and development programming as well as research in conflict and post-conflict settings. Prior to joining HPG, Irina worked for several NGOs and civil society organisations in South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and Pakistan.

Clare Price
Clare Price

Clare Price

Staff - Senior Communications Officer - Humanitarian Policy Group
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Clare is the Communications Officer for the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG). Before joining HPG, Clare held communications positions with the Australian agency for international development (AusAID) in Indonesia and The World Bank in Mongolia.

Eva Svoboda
Eva Svoboda

Eva Svoboda

Staff - Research Fellow - Humanitarian Policy Group

Eva has recently joined the HPG as research fellow. She has operational experience working in emergencies in the Middle East, Africa and Asia for NGOs and the ICRC focussing in particular on protection issues. She has degrees in Middles Eastern Studies as well as International Law. Her current research focuses on civil-military relations and the history of humanitarian action.

David White
David White

David White

Staff - Database and Membership Officer - Humanitarian Policy Group

Responsble for maintaining HPG and Humanitarian Practice Network membership databases. Responding to HPG and HPN membership enquiries and requests for publications..

Research Associates

John Borton
John Borton

John Borton

Staff - Senior Research Associate - Humanitarian Policy Group

John is a Senior Research Associate who has worked within the international humanitarian sector for 30 years in a variety of operational, evaluation, research and capacity development roles.
For the last year he has been part of the HPG’s Global History of Humanitarian Action team and has a particular interest in making the history of humanitarian action more accessible to humanitarian workers.

Margie Buchanan-Smith
Margie Buchanan-Smith

Margie Buchanan-Smith

Staff - Senior Research Associate - Humanitarian Policy Group

Margie is a Senior Research Associate based in London who has been involved in the humanitarian aid sector for over 20 years. Her current focus is Sudan, especially Darfur, where she first worked in the late 1980s, specialising in policy and practice, livelihoods and evaluations. She is also currently a Visiting Fellow at the Feinstein International Center team at Tufts University.

Sarah Collinson
Sarah Collinson

Sarah Collinson

Staff - Research Associate - Humanitarian Policy Group

Sarah Collinson is a Research Associate of HPG. Her recent work focuses on the challenges of humanitarian action in difficult political and security environments, including the implications of stabilisation and risk management agendas, protection, 'humanitarian space', and the political economy of livelihoods and displacement in crisis contexts. She has previously held senior research and policy positions at Chatham House and ActionAid.

Adele Harmer

Staff - Research Associate - Humanitarian Policy Group

Adele is a Humanitarian Policy Group Research Associate based in Kampala, Uganda and a partner with Humanitarian Outcomes. Her work has focused on humanitarian financing and institutional reform, and security of aid operations. She has previously worked for the Australian Government’s international aid agency (AusAID) and with the Australian Defence Force as a civilian peace monitor.

Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey

Staff - Research Associate - Humanitarian Policy Group
Paul Harvey is a Research Associate with HPG and a partner with Humanitarian Outcomes. Recent work has included reports on the role of state, cash based responses, remittances and dependency in humanitarian aid, a review of the state of the humanitarian system for ALNAP and an evaluation of WFP’s livelihoods recovery programming. Prior to joining ODI he worked for various NGOs as an emergency manager, including longer postings in Somalia, Sierra Leone and Kosovo.
Naz Khatoon Modirzadeh
Naz Khatoon Modirzadeh

Naz Khatoon Modirzadeh

Staff - Research Associate - Humanitarian Policy Group

Naz K. Modirzadeh focuses on dilemmas of international humanitarian law, human rights law, and humanitarian action in situations of armed conflict. Her most recent research and policy work focuses on the relationship between domestic and international counterterrorism regimes and humanitarian access and assistance.