Nigel Timmins

Nigel has worked in international humanitarian assistance since 1996 in a range of roles, starting as a volunteer Water and Sanitation Engineer with a local agency in Guatemala, and then working with different INGOs in a range of humanitarian environments.   He was Humanitarian Director for Oxfam International for six years, before taking up consultancy in 2022.  As a consultant he has co-authored papers on the performance of the humanitarian sector with Humanitarian Outcomes, the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University and on research & innovation for Elrha. He has additionally provided leadership training and strategy support for humanitarian agencies. 
Nigel was a founder Trustee of the Start Network and the Global Network for Disaster Reduction, Chair of the CaLP Network for five years and a member of the IASC Emergency Directors Group for three years.  He was a co-author of the Core Humanitarian Standard (first version) and the focal point for DRR in the 2011 version of SPHERE.