Interim Head of Operations
Anne Bennett is currently Interim Head of DCAF’s Operations Department and Head of the Sub-Saharan African Division.
Before joining DCAF in 2017, Anne worked for Fondation Hirondelle, where she served as Country Representative in Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan, and Myanmar. In that role she supported access to independent information for populations affected by conflict. A focus of her work has been the prevention of gender based violence, including the piloting of a technology-based initiative funded by the World Bank Group and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative to prevent intimate partner violence among Somali refugees.
As a Visiting Scientist at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Ms. Bennett conducted research on information and communication during humanitarian crisis, and including lessons learned from the 2014-2015 Ebola crisis and the 2018 report Engaging with People Affected by Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence.
She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in History and holds a Masters in International History and Politics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva.