Our Trainers

Aseel is a seasoned expert in gender-based issues and training. Hailing from Jordan, she has 13 years of professional experience in humanitarian and emergency settings. She has worked extensively in emergency contexts across various international NGOs and UN agencies, with assignments spanning the MENA region, East and West Africa, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. She has also worked in humanitarian-development nexus programming.  

Aseel provides technical advisory services in gender-based violence (GBV), protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), safeguarding, and safe programming. She is an experienced humanitarian leader with diverse roles managing multifaceted projects and large teams, in addition to navigating donors and budgets.    

Aseel is passionate about training, adult learning, and capacity development in the humanitarian sector. With a strong foundation in learning and development for humanitarian programming, she firmly believes in the power of knowledge sharing and its profound impact on the humanitarian field. She is adept in designing and delivering training programs in humanitarian interventions, emergency coordination, gender-based violence, PSEA, safeguarding, and safety and security. 

Carly has had extensive experience in over twenty countries since joining the humanitarian sector in 2005, across East and West Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Pacific. She has worked in natural disasters and conflict responses in a range of different roles including programme management, accountability to affected populations, information management, and response coordination in INGOs and the UN. 

Carly has deployed with RedR twice, to the conflict-affected region of Mindanao in the Philippines with WFP, and to UNICEF for a flood response in Pakistan. She has spent the majority of the past 15 years with OXFAM in both field and headquarters roles, and is currently the Accountability Advisor for their Global Humanitarian Team where she supports field teams globally to improve the quality of their programming. Carly holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from ANU.

Daniel is a seasoned security risk management consultant with over 14 years of experience in incident response, crisis management and security training. With a PhD in Security Risk Management from Coventry University, he specialises in humanitarian and corporate security, with extensive experience in hostile environments.

Daniel leads OSAR Consultancy, providing bespoke risk solutions globally. He has worked with the UN, UK government, and private sectors, including overseeing security for 6,000 staff in 56 countries at Herbalife. A passionate trainer, Daniel regularly delivers Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) and crisis management courses worldwide.

Hannah is a subject-matter expert on prevention and response to violence against women and children. She has more than 15 years’ experience providing technical leadership to the United Nations, national governments, and leading non-government organisations. She has developed global guidance and has led a number of multi-country initiatives, with her experience spanning across Asia, the Pacific, and Central and Southern Africa.

Hannah was previously a board member for an NGO focused on the prevention of and response to sexual violence against aid workers, and is a trained investigator of international crimes against children and sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

A RedR Australia roster member and an experienced associate trainer on RedR Australia's courses, Hannah trains on the Essentials of Humanitarian Practice and the Hostile Environment and Awareness Training courses.  

Listen to Hannah on our Humanitarian Conversations podcast.

Jess Letch is a highly experienced international aid and development expert with a 25-year track record in providing strategic leadership in dynamic environments. She is also a longstanding RedR Australia trainer, who can often be found on our Hostile Environment Awareness Training course.

Her extensive experience spans Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe, demonstrating a deep cultural understanding and strong interpersonal skills. Jess excels in humanitarian operations, coordination, and team leadership. With a rich academic background, including a Master of Program Evaluation, Jess is adept at needs assessment, program design and monitoring. Her expertise lies in stakeholder engagement, building robust relationships with diverse partners, and resource mobilisation and she has held key roles in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Ukraine and across Asia-Pacific region.

A strong teacher and mentor, Jess is a catalyst for positive change in aid and development. 

Listen to Jess on our Humanitarian Conversations podcast.

John Tipper has over 20 years’ experience in international humanitarian leadership, with specialisations in aviation logistics, security management, and contextualised training provision.

For six years, he worked in the Middle East in response to complex emergencies in Syria and Iraq. Prior to that, he spent six years as the Country Director of an international aviation NGO in South Sudan, and as the Security Focal Point for a large number of international NGOs. He was also a regular contributor to the UN’s South Sudan Humanitarian Country Team. In his current role, John mentors local partners from countries facing conflict on practical approaches to crisis management.

He is a devoted educator and regularly delivers training for humanitarian agencies working in disaster response. He is the author of Decision Making in Disaster Response, a practical training guide for aid workers used by university courses and humanitarian organisations worldwide.

A highly experienced water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) engineer, humanitarian leader and academic, Kathryn Harries worked for Sydney Water Corporation for a decade before transitioning to the international humanitarian sector. 

Since then, for over 20 years, Kathryn has devoted her life to helping provide clean water and sanitation for people affected by humanitarian disasters around the world. Her work as WASH Cluster Coordinator in Somalia (2010–12) was recognised as global good practice for knowledge management and information sharing.

Kathryn’s PhD, from Deakin University’s Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, developed a practical guide to strengthen the performance and impact of technical field teams in humanitarian organisations, and has received strong interest both nationally and internationally.

Kathryn is also an experienced trainer and she loves teaching on RedR Australia courses, including our WASH and Essentials of Humanitarian Practice courses.

Listen to Kathryn on our Humanitarian Conversations podcast.

Marine is an experienced trainer and consultant with 13 years' experience in security, safety and crisis management across French and English NGOs. Her capacity-building missions focus on personal and organisational risk management, psychological first aid, managing aggressive behavior, and sexual violence response. As a certified trainer of trainers and first aid responder, she specialises in security challenges where psychological dimensions prove as critical as technical constraints. Marine also trains adventure travelers in safety preparation and logistics, while serving as an instructor for wilderness courses and expedition safety specialist, combining her international law background with practical field expertise of project management. 

Mark Wall is a practitioner and consultant with extensive experience in the humanitarian, development, education, community relations, defence and public safety sectors. His tertiary qualifications include: degrees in education, social sciences, industrial relations, and ethics; and technical and vocational qualifications in management, competency-based training and assessment, and electronics. Mark's recent deployments include a RedR / UNESCO position in EiE, strategic planning and social media for peace in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda; and a 12 month NRC / UNESCO position as head of the UNESCO desk in Somalia.

Patricia is a humanitarian logistician and medical logistician who has worked in emergency responses and capacity building roles across Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Her latest role was with the WFP Pacific Office, in collaboration with SPC, to develop and deliver warehouse operations training to Pacific Island countries as part of the Pacific Humanitarian Warehousing Program. Patricia is an associate trainer for RedR Australia in Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT), Essentials of Humanitarian Practice (EHP), Humanitarian Logistics in Emergencies (HLE) and bespoke humanitarian training for partners.