Jeroen Jansen

Role: Senior Programme Committee
Affiliation: Evidence Aid, UK

Jeroen Jansen has been engaged in a wide variety of sectors, issues and working environments, mostly in management positions. After a career in the private sector, he worked for Médecins Sans Frontières in Afghanistan, Liberia, Darfur, Nigeria and other contexts. At the MSF office in London he worked as the Head of the Programmes Unit managing and engaging in reflection, analysis and research activities related to humanitarian affairs and health policy. During this time he started the Bloomsbury Humanitarian Debates series in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Although he started as an engineer, he later obtained a Masters in International Human Rights Law and a graduate diploma in Refugees Studies at the American University in Cairo. Aside from MSF, Jeroen worked with some smaller development organisations, tech start-ups and for Marie Stopes International as Programme Manager Pakistan. He is also founder of DISAO, an initiative he attempted to turn into a social enterprise. Many of these activities included extensive work on e-health, ICT4D, mobile health and other digital initiatives. Jeroen joined Evidence Aid as Director in September 2015 and is also still involved with MSF as a Member of the Board of Trustees at MSF-Spain. Jeroen has championed an evidence-based approach to humanitarian aid throughout his career in the humanitarian sector.