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Gerard Gomez – Independent Consultant, UN OCHA
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The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional.
Today we’re talking with Gerard Gomez. Since January 2022, with more than 33 years of experience with international NGO and the United Nations, Gerard is an independent consultant in Humanitarian affairs, coordination, Management, Training, and everything related to preparedness, response and nexus in Natural disasters and Conflict. From July to December 2021he was Deputy head of the OCHA Mali office. From September 2020 to June 2021 he was OCHA head of the Pacific Office in Fiji, and from September 2019 to August 2020, he was Deputy Chief of Mission of IOM COLOMBIA. Additionally to the traditional work of IOM Gerard has been also co-Leading with UNHCR the national platform on mixed migration (GIFMM for its acronym in Spanish) coordinating 60 partners to respond to the massive migrations of millions of Venezuelans.
Also, Gerard was Head of the OCHA Colombia office from 2012 to August 2019, in charge of the coordination of 11 UN agencies, 20 international NGOs and other stakeholders to respond adequately and in complementary of the government efforts to the need of the most vulnerable people. From 2004 to 2012, he was head of the OCHA regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean. In charge of preparedness and response in more than 25 countries of the region. UN team Leader in more than 30 emergencies in the region including the Haiti earthquake response in 2010.
Earlier, Gerard worked with Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) for 13 years (1989 -2002), in places where armed conflicts and natural disasters prevailed (El Salvador, Mozambique, Southern Sudan, Chechenia, Haiti, Georgia, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia).
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