Juan Jose Tarres Sanjurjo

Country Experience: Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece,Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey(Syria).

Juanjo is a supply chain and logistics adviser, specialising in humanitarian logistics.Juanjo has more than17years of professional logistics experience, including more than 2 years working at field level as head of base, 2 years as a flying logistics coordinator in emergencies, and several field visits performing training, audits, and real time reviews.

Juanjo spent part of his humanitarian career at Oxfam headquarters, in decisional and advisor positions. His experience includes training in logistics, as well as cross-cutting issues like communication, gender, security, cash, local partners, preparedness and exit programmes.

He has worked for several humanitarian organisations as a regional logistics advisor across Africa and Latin America. Juanjo is currently working as a Global Logistics Adviser for Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Team, managing a team of humanitarian support personal to be deployed in emergency response.

Juanjo has been deployed on more than 14 emergency missions, helping him develop a deep understanding of the humanitarian field in different contexts (typhoons, war conflict, droughts, etc). He has extensive programme implementation knowledge and experience, having worked as an in-field head of base. Juanjo is also a knowledgeable trainer who collaborates with the University of Alcalá annually to deliver training.

Juanjo is licensed in Law at University of Barcelona. He has received intensive external training in security (SAFA/HEAT with ILS), logistics (LRT training with WFP), cash (with CALP), donor’s proposal (with ECHO), local partners (PARCEL methodology) and several internal trainings (safeguarding, safe programming, feminism and communication). Juanjo speaks Spanish, French and English fluently, and has a good working knowledge of Russian and Arabic.