The International Rescue Committee’s staff leadership board and senior leaders group manage the strategy and implementation of the IRC’s humanitarian work worldwide.
UK Management Team
Melanie Ward
Interim Executive Director, UK
Denisa Delic
Advocacy Director, UK
Stephen Holyoak
Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, Europe
Bhavisha Shah
Human Resources Business Partner
Khusbu Patel
Director, Strategic Partnerships
Louise Riddick
Associate Director, Corporate Partnerships
Peggy Walters
Communications Director, UK
IRC Staff Leadership Board
President and CEO
Ciaran Donnelly
Senior Vice President, Crisis Response, Recovery and Development
Hans Van de Weerd
Vice President, US Programs
Harlem Desir
Senior Vice President for Europe
Jeannie Annan
Chief Research and Innovation Officer
Jennifer Sime
Senior Vice President, Resettlement, Asylum and Integration; Awards Management Unit; Measurement
Madlin Sadler
Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Oscar Raposo
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Ricardo Castro
General Counsel
Senior Leaders Group
Comprising the Leadership Board, plus:
Aaron Rippenkroeger
Resettlement, Asylum and Integration West Executive Director
Adnan Junaid
Country Director, Pakistan
Aissatou Balde
Country Director, Cote D’Ivoire
Alyoscia D'Onofrio
Vice President and Head of Technical Excellence
Anne Lieberman
Interim Vice President, USA Philanthropy
Aska Pickering
Deputy Vice President, Awards Management Unit
Avigail Ziv
Resettlement, Asylum and Integration East Executive Director
Barri Shorey
Senior Director, Economic Recovery and Development
Bill Schaffrath
Senior Director, Internal Audit, Finance
Bob Kitchen
Vice President, Emergencies and Humanitarian Action
Brian Johnson
Chief Human Resources Officer
Chris Honsberger
Chief Global Supply Chain Officer
Cica Dadjo
Interim Head of Diversity Equality & Inclusion
Colin McIlreavy
Chief Safety and Security Officer
Elijah Okeyo
Country Director, Uganda
Elinor Raikes
Vice President and Head of Programme Delivery, Crisis Response, Recovery and Development
Elizabeth Norman
Senior Director, Finance and Administration, Crisis Response, Recovery and Development
Ellen Beattie
Senior Director of Programme Quality, Resettlement, Asylum and Integration
Em Fackler
Chief Information Officer; Vice President, Technology and Operations
Imogen Sudbery
Director Policy & Advocacy Europe/Head of IRC Belgium
Isabella De Mattia
Senior Director, Business Operations & Analytics, External Relations
Jennifer Sklar
Interim head of Education Unit
Jonathan Beloe
Senior Director, Program Quality Support
Judson Flanagan
Vice President, International Operations
Kate Moger
Regional Vice President, Great Lakes
Katherine Finn
Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
Kristin Kim-Bart
Senior Director, Gender Equality
Kurt Tjossem
Regional Vice President, East Africa
Laura Kyrke Smith (on Maternity Leave)
Executive Director IRC UK
Melanie Ward
Interm Executive Director IRC UK
Marianne Aparicio
Country Director, Colombia/Venezuela - Latin America
Marijana Simic
Regional Director Resstlement Asylum and Integration, Europe
Martin Bratt
Chief Strategy Officer
Matias Meier
Country Director, Lebanon - Middle East & North Africa
Megan Nobert
Director of Safeguarding
Meghan Lopez
Regional Vice President, Latin America
Mesfin Teklu Tessema
Senior Health Director
Mireille Cronin Mather
Vice President, Awards Management Unit
Naima Siddiqi
Senior Director, UK Finance & Operations
Nazanin Ash
Vice President, Public Policy and Advocacy
Nick Jones-Bannister
Senior Director, Measurement
Nicole Behnam
Senior Technical Director, Violence Prevention and Response Unit (VPRU)
Nicole Walden
Senior Director, Strategy and Performance
Ourania Dionysiou
Vice President, International Philanthropy and Partnerships
Patrick Poulin
Regional Director, Pacific West - Resstlement Asylum and Integration Programmes
Paul Taylor
Regional Vice President, West Africa
Phil Woollam
Vice President Mass Markets
Ralph Achenbach
Managing Director- Germany
Rick Estridge
Global Controller
Robin Dunn Marcos
Senior Director, Resstlement Asylum and Integration Programming
Salma Ben Aissa
Country Director, Central African Republic
Sanna Johnson
Regional Vice President, Asia
Sarah Case
Senior Director, Policy and Planning
Su’ad Jarbawi
Regional Vice President, Middle East & North Africa
Susan Ringler
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Tracy Reines
Director, Atlantic-Central, Resstlement Asylum and Integration Programmes
Wale Osofisan
Senior Director, Governance
Zain Haboo
Chief Mobilisation & Marketing Officer Communications