Lars Peter has more than 10 years experience within the humanitarian field. His experience ranges from first line response to sudden onset natural disasters to complex emergencies and fragile states. He has worked extensively with disaster risk reduction, disaster response and capacity building. He is a member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) Team for Denmark. He has been the Project Director of ACAPS since January 2010.

Jude is Training Coordinator for ACAPS. Previously she worked with Merlin as Learning and Development Officer but her involvement in the needs assessment project began at the end of 2008 when she was seconded to help organise the January 2009 workshop on common needs assessment in Bangkok.  Before that she worked for five years with a health NGO developing national training for health professionals involved in smoking prevention work. She holds a Masters in Education, health promotion and international development.

Patrice has been involved in relief activities as emergency coordinator and emergency desk for Horn of Africa, middle East, Great Lakes, South East Asia, Central and South America for ten years. He spent two years involved in emergency preparedness projects and training for middle East and Latin America. He is currently the Information Analyst for the ACAPS project, in charge of needs assessment methodology development and support to field operations.Patrice has a B.A. in International Law and Political Science and a Masters degree in Humanitarian Action and Public Health.

Caroline’s communication experience includes both United Nations and NGO positions. She has worked as Communications Officer for the World Food Programme in Geneva and for Human Rights Watch in Brussels. She also has experience as a Public Information Officer for UNOCHA in both the Democratic Republic of Congo and Geneva. Caroline joined the ACAPS team mid-March 2010 as the Communications Officer.

Louise holds a BA in International Cultural Studies and a MA in History and Religious Studies from Roskilde University. She has previously worked with administration and communication within the private sector and with DanChurchAid Malawi.

Valeria has four years of experience in the international development field in Brazil, working mainly for an educational project for the children of landless and settled families. There she also worked with a community level NGO. Valeria holds a BA in European Studies and a MA in Humanitarian Action from the University College of Dublin and UCL (Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). During her studies she carried out an internship at the Logistics Support Unit OCHA Geneva.

Anne-Katherine has 13 years of experience in the humanitarian field mostly within the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement covering a variety of emergency operations across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. As a relief coordinator, head of operation and regional representative, she has been in a wide range of emergency response operations, responsible for launching operations using global response mechanisms as well as developing post-emergency rehabilitation portfolios. Her experience most recently spans interventions such as the Horn of Africa food crisis, the Lebanon conflict, and the Tsunami operation in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Ragna has been the ACAPS Roster Manager since April 2010. Her background is as Recruitment Coordinator for NRC and as Adviser Emergency Preparedness for Norwegian Church Aid. Ragna has a Masters degree in Political Sociology from London School of Economics and a Masters degree in International Human Rights from the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. She is based in Oslo within the Emergency Response Department of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Leonie holds a BA in International Law and a MA in Humanitarian Action from the University College of Dublin.  During her studies she did an internship at DG ECHO and started an internship at ACAPS.  As an ACAPS intern, and later as a project assistant, Leonie worked on Phase 1 needs assessments. After working in South Sudan for a period of 5 months, Leonie returned to work for ACAPS as a Junior Information Analyst.

Myrthe holds a BA in International Relations and a MA in Humanitarian Assistance from Groningen University. In addition she has a MA from Uppsala University in Conflict Resolution. Previously she gained experience at the Crisis Management Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the Dutch Council for Refugees and at Makerere University in Uganda. As a visiting scholar at Columbia University she conducted research on the legitimacy of external transitional governments in the aftermath of conflict. At ACAPS she works with Phase I assessments. 

Wilhelmina is a graduate of political sciences from the Free University of Berlin with special focus on international relations, UN-reform and security studies. She has been conducting research on development and humanitarian issues of coordination and aid effectiveness. In previous experiences Wilhelmina has worked with UNOCHA, UNDP, UNDOCO, the European Parliament and with a number of community-level NGOs. Wilhelmina has been working with ACAPS since January 2011 on phase II assessments.