Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán

Gonzalo Sanchez-Teran worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service from 2001 to 2016 as Country Director in Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and the Central African Republic, and as Program Officer at the Chadian-Sudanese and the Somali-Ethiopian border. During this time he has organized, managed and implemented emergency projects in refugee and IDP camps with a special focus in education.

He has also done consultancy work on humanitarian assistance, development and advocacy for International NGOs in Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Zambia, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Chad, Cameroon, Uganda, South Sudan, Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Since 2014 he is the Deputy Humanitarian Programs Director at Fordham University (New York) where he also teaches at the International Diploma on Humanitarian Assistance. He is also the Director of the Education in Emergencies Course.

Gonzalo is also a regular lecturer for the Humanitarian Cooperation Master at Comillas University (Madrid), NOHA Master in International Humanitarian Action at Deusto University (Bilbao), and the Master of International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the UIC (Barcelona).

In the last years he has conducted training Courses for local NGOs in Sudan, Jordan, South Korea, Kenya, Myanmar, South Africa, Malaysia, India, the United Arab Emirates, Nepal and Nicaragua. From 2010 to 2011 he was the director of Intermon-Oxfam’s book collection.

Since 2015 he has been invited to participate and lecture in seminars at Columbia University, New York (Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, September 2015), the Pontifical Academy of Science, Rome (Children and Sustainable Development: A Challenge for Education, November 2015), the Academic Counsel of the United Nations System, New York (Meeting the Challenges of Development and Dignity, June 2016), UCLA University, Los Angeles (Humanitarianism and Mass Migration, January 2017), the V International Congress of Scholas Chairs at Fordham University, New York (June 2019), Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona (Un modelo de protección internacional para el siglo XXI, February 2023), and the International Council of Environmental Law (Towards a Legal System in Harmony and Peace with Nature, December 2023)

Since 2018 he has worked with the AECID (Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional), conducting trainings and capacity building programs for its national and international staff.