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Fiona Terry
Well-known author and long-time relief worker, Fiona Terry, has spent most of the last 20 years involved in humanitarian operations in different parts of the world including northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia and Sudan.
Fiona was a research director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris from 2000-2003 working on North Korea, Sierra Leone and Angola, before spending three years with the ICRC in Myanmar. Fiona holds a Ph.D. in international relations and political science from the Australian National University and is the author of "Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action", which won the 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
More recently she has been teaching at Duke University in North Carolina. She's currently based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Through the prism of her experience, Fiona will examine the virtues and responsibilities of providing humanitarian aid, and how sometimes it can do more harm than good during her TEDxRC² talk.
Fiona was a research director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Paris from 2000-2003 working on North Korea, Sierra Leone and Angola, before spending three years with the ICRC in Myanmar. Fiona holds a Ph.D. in international relations and political science from the Australian National University and is the author of "Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action", which won the 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
More recently she has been teaching at Duke University in North Carolina. She's currently based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Through the prism of her experience, Fiona will examine the virtues and responsibilities of providing humanitarian aid, and how sometimes it can do more harm than good during her TEDxRC² talk.