Elsa Moreno Joins LWF/DWS as Program Officer for Emergencies and Refugees
Effective 1 November, Ms Elsa Moreno joined the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Department for World Service (DWS) as Program Officer for Emergencies, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), succeeding Mr Neville Pradhan from India, who left the LWF last June.
Before taking up her new position, Moreno, 52, and from Colombia, was working with the Action by Churches Together (ACT) International coordination office in Geneva, Switzerland, as program officer responsible for the preparation and follow up of appeals for humanitarian assistance, as well as fundraising among other tasks.
Prior to joining ACT in November 1999, she worked as a program officer for Norwegian Church Aid in Guatemala from March 1998 until July 1999. From 1994 until 1997, she was a social researcher with the Latin American Faculty of Sciences (FLACSO) in San José, Costa Rica. She was a special adviser for the European Union in Costa Rica from 1987 to 1991. Other key assignments included director and chief financial manager of two cooperative societies in Bogota, Colombia, between 1975 and 1987.
Moreno holds an international diploma in humanitarian assistance from the University of Geneva (2002). She pursued a post-graduate course in gender and development at the University of London in 1997. From 1972 until 1976, she studied economics at the University of Bogota, followed by a post-graduate diploma in the management of social enterprises at the St Thomas Aquino University, Bogota. (242 words)
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