Rhonda Gossen is a former diplomat with Global Affairs Canada, assigned to Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Ghana. She is currently a senior consultant with UNDP, working on early recovery, forced displacement and refugee response, resilience, stabilization, development solutions to internal displacement and strategic planning. She worked as development advisor to the humanitarian coordinator for the Rohingya Crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and to UNHCR Lebanon on the Syrian refugee crisis. In addition to UNDP, she has undertaken assignments with the World Bank, UNICEF, UNHCR, in Pakistan, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, South Sudan, Southern Africa, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan Afghanistan, and Iran. She is the author of an upcoming book with McGill-Queens University Press.
Topics of interest:
- Foreign aid/development cooperation
- Humanitarian response and humanitarian-development-peace nexus
- Disaster and crisis response
- Gender equality, women’s rights
- Preventing violent extremism