Friday, March 28
12:15PM – 1:45PM
Morse Room B104, 426 Van Buren, Monterey
Co-hosted by the Naval War College Faculty Workshop
Featured Speaker: Marjolaine Greentree
Marjolaine Greentree has more than 25 years of experience in humanitarian work with the International Committee of the Red Cross and various UN agencies. She will review challenges in delivering humanitarian aid and protection drawing on recent successes and failures in the Philippines, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. In addition, she will examine and review the mandates of the different actors in the humanitarian world, how they relate to each other, the recent evolution of practices, especially coordination through the recently introduced cluster system.
Born in Switzerland, Marjolaine Greentree started her humanitarian career with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the middle of the Lebanese civil war. Throughout the years, she has worked in conflict situations in Jerusalem during the Intifada, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Romania, Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Yemen. Her assignments with ICRC and various UN agencies included field work, tracing agency, visits to prisoners and protection of the civilian population, communication, human resources, food security, coordination and management . Most recently, she was based in Rome, as Senior Advisor to the Global Food Security cluster.