HCRI Speaker Series with Gareth Owen. Responding to Emergency Crises - personal reflections
| Dates: | 19 October 2016 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Gareth Owen |
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For this HCRI Speaker Series we will be joined by Gareth Owen OBE, Humanitarian Director for Save the Children. Gareth has worked in the aid sector for 25 years. He joined Save the Children in 2002 as an emergency adviser and became Humanitarian Director in 2007. He has led Save the Children’s responses to every major emergency over the past decade, most notably the Iraq conflict, the Asian tsunami, Cyclone Nargis, Haiti, Pakistan, East Africa, Niger and the Philippines. Gareth was awarded an OBE in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to emergency crisis response abroad. In this Speaker Series event, Gareth talks about his work in humanitarian responses over the last two decades.
Tickets are free but please register via Eventbrite: http://hcrigarethowen.eventbrite.co.uk
Speaker
Gareth Owen
Role: Humanitarian Director
Organisation: Save the Children
Travel and Contact Information
Find event
Room A2.6
Ellen Wilkinson Building
Manchester
