Regional Resilience and Livelihoods Coordinator for East Africa and Great Lakes Region (EAGL) at Danish Refugee Council
Natalie has dedicated her career to supporting efforts to heal and restore community agroecosystems as a basis of circular bioeconomy at the bioregional level. Her experiences over the past 15 years – including serving as IRD’s South Sudan country director and now Danish Refugee Council’s Regional Resilience and Livelihoods Coordinator – have shaped her approach to livelihoods and community wellbeing and deepened her resolve to tackle the root causes of ecological degradation. Natalie believes that building systems-based resilience for households, communities and regions can happen by applying design and regenerative thinking to all contexts, including the natural, built, social and economic environments in which we work.