Geraldine is a national of Ireland and the Director of WFP London Global Office. She has over 25 years’ professional experience leading strategy and policy, partnerships, and programs for INGOs and the UN, and the UK government. She was the UK Country Director for FCDO and Deputy Ambassador in Harare, Zimbabwe. Prior to that she was the DFID / FCDO Deputy Director for the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean in UK headquarters leading policy teams in headquarters and program teams in-country. She has also held Country Director / senior leadership roles in Uganda, South Sudan, and the Caribbean. Geraldine has sectoral expertise in governance, conflict, security, and recovery, as well as disaster risk reduction and climate. Moreover, she has led HQ policy teams for the UK government on armed violence, conflict, security, rising powers, small islands states and on disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration for UNDP.