Marilise holds an MSc in Global Development Management (Open, UK) and an MA in Modern Languages (Oxon.). She has 22 years’ experience in senior management, advisory and consulting roles in the international aid sector. She has designed, implemented and evaluated development and humanitarian programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, including interventions in the sectors of DRR and climate change adaptation; food security and livelihoods; WASH; shelter and housing; education; protection; gender equity; child and youth development.
Marilise has deep expertise in the fields of DRR and Resilience. For over a decade she has been a key contributor to the development of DRR and resilience-building programmes and policies.
Highlights include: Founding Oxfam’s Risk Reduction and Adaptation unit and strategy (2006); publishing Toward Resilience: A Practitioner’s Guide to DRR and CCA (2013) for a consortium of six leading development agencies; producing the UN Status Report on Disaster Risk Reduction for Sub Saharan Africa (2009), and developing the IFRC’s operational guidance for national societies working to strengthen community resilience, Road Map to Resilience (2016).
Marilise is a strong writer, presenter, facilitator and trainer. She works in English, Spanish and French.
