Elora holds a Masters degree in Disaster Management and has 12 years’ experience in management and advisory roles in the international aid sector. Elora is a Disaster Risk Management professional with excellent technical, analytical, and leadership skills. She has played a leading role in the integration of DRM into institutional and organisational strategies, programmes and campaigns, including for Oxfam and UNDP.
Over her career Elora has specialised in gender equity and child protection; her passion is ensuring that humanitarian action is risk- and gender-informed, and that it promotes the active participation of women, men and children. Following a recent move from Bangladesh to Canada, Elora is applying her experience from South and East Asia to new contexts, such as with cross-border asylum seekers and in the national programme of the Canadian Red Cross Society.
