Nicola is the CEO of Crisis Action, an award-winning organisation fostering collaboration to protect people from war. In this role, she draws on more than twenty years’ experience of campaigning, including as the inaugural head of Oxfam International’s office at the UN, also leading its humanitarian campaigning across the world. She co-founded the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect where she was also Advocacy Director. She’s been an adviser to Avaaz and the UN in Rwanda. As a Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute in London, she authored landmark reports on humanitarian coordination within the UN and donor trends in humanitarian action. A writer, researcher and advocate of the power of doubt in leadership, she holds Master’s degrees from Cambridge and LSE and is based in London.
