[Director/CEO]  [Head of Operations]

Wolfgang Gressmann, Head of Operations

IASCI’s Head of Operations, Mr. Wolfgang Gressmann joined IASCI in January 2006 and adds substantial operational knowledge to the organization. In 2005 he assumed responsibility as Head of Mission of the German Government’s Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) to Sri Lanka.

Between 2004 and 2005 he coordinated the Regional Information Exchange Programme of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe. Prior to this engagement he was the Regional Director for South Eastern Europe of the German NGO Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB). In this function, he was in charge for the development and implementation of one of the largest reconstruction and refugee return programs carried out by an NGO for the European Commission.

His recent field missions for IASCI include:

• Emergency Response Coordination in Haiti (2010)

• Basic Needs Assessment in Yemen (2009)

• Management Support in the Refugee Operation in Dadaab, Kenya at the Somali border (2009)

• Project Development the Cholera Crisis in Zimbabwe (2009)

• Emergency Response Advisor in the IDP crisis in Georgia (2008)

• Information management in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2008)

• Management of Information Clearinghouse in Pakistan (2007)

• Management of Inter-Cluster Information Management Working Group following the Cyclone in Pakistan (2007)

Earlier, he worked in the field of emergency relief and as journalist, among other countries in Afghanistan, Iraq,  Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Pakistan, India, Guatemala, Morocco and Egypt.

Mr. Gressmann holds a Masters degree in Sociology from the University of Hamburg, Germany. 

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