Jemilah Mahmood replies to your questions – Part 1

During our regional consultation for the Europe and Others group in Budapest we gave participants in the room, as well as people from all over the world who followed the meeting via a live webstream, the possibility to send in questions for our panellists.

We received nearly 200 questions – too many to be answered during the short time allocated for the panel discussion. In the spirit of the summit’s aim to be an inclusive and transparent process, Jemilah Mahmood, chief of the World Humanitarian Summit secretariat, will answer a number of the public’s questions in a series of short video blogs.

Q: How can the humanitarian system be changed to a bottom-up system where local actors play a meaningful leadership role?

We are looking for guest bloggers: If you or someone from your organization would like to reply to one of the public’s question, please get in touch with us. We accept written blog posts (600 – 800 words) and short videos or audio recordings (around 2 minutes).

Author

Jemilah Mahmood

Dr. Jemilah Mahmood is the Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat and has more than 15 years of experience working in disaster affected countries. She was the Chief of Humanitarian Response at United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in New York from 2011-2009, and from 2013-2011 was concurrently a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Humanitarian Futures Programme at King’s Policy Institute, King’s College London, and worked on private sector and military roles in disasters as well as engagement with a diverse set of humanitarian actors. She is also a medical physician and the founder of MERCY Malaysia, one of the most successful humanitarian organizations from the global south, leading it for a decade. Dr. Mahmood has worked closely with regional organizations, particularly ASEAN, and has been an active member of several humanitarian international boards.

Author

Jemilah Mahmood

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