Countries of experience: Kenya, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, Greece, Ethiopia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pacific Islands.
Kristin is an innovative humanitarian leader focused on cash programming and economic recovery known for her successful leadership of pilot programs and multi-disciplinary technical teams.
Since 2009 Kristin has worked across humanitarian programs to facilitate locally led recovery and resilience- including work on cash and market-based programming, livelihoods, and advocacy. Kristin can effectively collate ideas and lead consultative processes to set a strategic vision and bring innovation into practice. Achievements due to an emphasis on collaboration, local leadership, networks, partnerships, and alliances as tools that facilitate change. Kristin has a proven track record on developing and translating strategies into action plans and representing work in high-level forums, including the (previous) Grand Bargain Cash Workstream, CaLP, and the CCD.
Kristin’s areas of interest include anticipatory action and preparedness, and in safe and inclusive digital responses with the overarching aim of economic resilience for communities affected by crisis.
Kristin holds a MSc from the London School of Economics in Population and Development, and a BA in Economics from Oxford Brookes University.