Welcome Address

Johan Schaar, Steering Committee Chair, ALNAP

_{Johan has had a distinguished career in both humanitarian and risk reduction/development work. He played a leading role in establishing the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative and led IFRC’s Indian Ocean Tsunami recovery operations. He is Chair of ALNAP’s Steering Committee.}

Juliet Parker, Acting Director, ALNAP

_{Juliet is Acting Director of ALNAP. Juliet has 20 years’ experience of humanitarian programming and senior level strategic management with a particular focus on performance and monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning. Juliet joined ALNAP in 2020 from Action Against Hunger UK where she was Director of Operations.}

Keynote

Alice Obrecht, Head of Research and Impact, ALNAP

_{Alice is Head of Research and Impact at ALNAP and has over 15 years’ experience in qualitative research design and evidence-driven policy. She is an established research expert on humanitarian effectiveness, evidence uptake, aid sector accountability and innovation, and has research experience in over a dozen countries.}

High-Level Panel

Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, Acting Director, Coordination Division, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

_{Wafaa is currently the Acting Director of OCHA Coordination Division. Wafaa has 20 years’ experience working for the UN. She has worked in Indonesia, Pakistan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Syria and the US. Her most recent roles were Deputy Director in the Operations and Advocacy Division of OCHA New York covering Eastern & Southern Africa (October 2018 to December 2020) and Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia (January to March 2021).}

Heba Aly, Chief Executive Officer, The New Humanitarian

_{A multimedia journalist by training, Heba spent a decade reporting from conflict zones in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. Heba has worked with The New Humanitarian since 2007, playing a key role in IRIN’s spin-off from the UN into an independent media organisation.}

Jan Egeland, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and former UN Emergency Relief Coordinator

_{Jan has been Secretary General of NRC since 2013. He was recently appointed Eminent Person of the Grand Bargain, responsible for promoting commitments to better serve people in need. Jan has held many senior roles, including Special Advisor to UN mediation efforts in Syria.}

Chair

John Mitchell, Special Advisor, ALNAP

_{John is a Special Advisor to ALNAP, having recently stepped down as Director after 19 years. Prior to ALNAP, John held positions at DFID, WFP, IFRC and BRC. John is well known as a presenter and is an advisor to the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute.}

Closing Remarks

Juliet Parker, Acting Director, ALNAP

_{Juliet is Acting Director of ALNAP. Juliet has 20 years’ experience of humanitarian programming and senior level strategic management with a particular focus on performance and monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning. Juliet joined ALNAP in 2020 from Action Against Hunger UK where she was Director of Operations.}

High-Level Panel

Jagan Chapagain, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

_{Jagan is the Secretary General of the IFRC. An engineer by training, Jagan has spent more than 25 years working across Europe and Asia for the IFRC. He began his career as a youth volunteer with the Nepal Red Cross where he represented and advocated on behalf of communities.}

Hibak Kalfan, Executive Director, Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR)

_{Hibak is the Executive Director of Network for Empowered Aid Response. Hibak has more than 12 years’ experience and worked with organisations in the humanitarian, media, development and government sectors in the Horn of Africa and Middle East.}

Jeremy Konyndyk, Executive Director, COVID-19, Office of the Administrator, USAID

_{Jeremy is Executive Director of the USAID COVID-19 Task Force and a Senior Advisor to the USAID Administrator. He rejoined USAID in 2021, having served as Director of OFDA from 2013 – 2017 where he oversaw the US government’s response to 70+ disasters per year.}

Chair

Johan Schaar, Steering Committee Chair, ALNAP

_{Johan has had a distinguished career in both humanitarian and risk reduction/development work. He played a leading role in establishing the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative and led IFRC’s Indian Ocean Tsunami recovery operations. He is Chair of ALNAP’s Steering Committee.}