Isabelle holds a BSc in Aid and Development (IFAID, France, 1998) and an MSc by Research in Disaster Management (University of Coventry UK, 2001). She has over 22 years of experience as a volunteer, manager, advisor and consultant in the international aid sector and particularly in the fields of Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience.

She has worked in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and South East Asia. She has led and supported a diversity of resilience activities and processes – ranging from strategic planning to program design, advocacy activities and evaluations – but her particular interests and strengths are linked to the development of technical guidance for practitioners and capacity development.

Isabelle works in English, Spanish and French. She currently works as the Global Resilience Advisor for GOAL.