New Emergency Response Preparedness Consultant

Cecile Basquin has recently joined the GNC team as an Emergency Response Preparedness consultant. Cecile will continue the ongoing GNC efforts on Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) and her work will include updating our GNC ERP guidance, developing a workshop package to support country nutrition cluster coordination teams with respective preparedness plans and rolling out a series of regional-level ERP trainings for Nutrition Cluster Coordinators.

Over the past 4 years, Cecile worked as a Nutrition Cluster Coordinator in Ethiopia and Niger and as a Nutrition in Emergencies consultant with UNICEF East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Regional Office. In that role, Cecile strengthened Nutrition Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) capacities of UNICEF Nutrition program staff in countries, government counterparts and partners in the EAP region. Cecile is a Nutrition specialist since 2010 when she joined Action Against Hunger ACF – USA and has technical expertise in a wide range of Nutrition competencies including notably in CMAM, IYCF-E, nutrition-related assessments, and worked in several countries across Asia and Africa.

Before joining the humanitarian sector, Cecile worked as a researcher deciphering the transport of nutrients and ions across cell membranes and received her masters degree and PhD in molecular and cell biology in 2001 and 2005 respectively from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.

Please feel most welcome to reach out to Cecile on cbasquin@unicef.org.