Country Experience: Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
During her 21-year professional career in the humanitarian and development sectors, Siobhan has been a global coordinator, senior manager, technical adviser, head of mission, programme manager, consultant, lecturer, trainer and facilitator. For the past 15years, Siobhan’s focus has been on designing, developing and delivering gender, diversity inclusion, protection and gender-based violence prevention, mitigation and response programmes and trainings. Siobhan has conducted this work in numerous countries, working as a cross-cutting issue specialist in multi-disciplinary intra-and inter-organisational teams; this includes the United Nations, the ICRC, the IFRC and a number of NGOs. Consequently, Siobhan has acquired broad-ranging and comprehensive gender skills and experience.
Siobhan has a Master’s in Equality Studies from the University College Dublin, where her thesis focused on addressing gender-based violence in conflict.