Speakers

Christina Psarra

General Director, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF Greece)

Christina Psarra is currently the General Director of the Greek Section of Médecins Sans Frontières, while in the past she has been the Head of Humanitarian Programs and responsible of the Operations Research Unit of MSF in Brussels.

She has also led, supported and coordinated aid programs in several countries among which Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya, Chad, Bangladesh, Ukraine, Egypt and has coordinated search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea. Mrs. Psarra has also worked extensively in urban settings. In Marseille, she coordinated a nationwide experimental project offering housing to homeless with severe mental disorders, in Greece she has designed and managed social and health care programs for drug users and Roma populations and has co-initiated the “Refugees Welcome - Greece” project.

She has researched humanitarian systems, access to care and has worked in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.

She studied Philosophy at the University of Athens and Social Policy in Panteion. She has a Master of Science in NGOs and Development from LSE and has fulfilled a Fulbright Research Fellowship in the University of Maryland. She has been a Fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School's Strategic Management for NGO Leaders program and trained as a negotiator at the US Peace Institute.