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Jeff Wright

Operations Director, Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs

Jeff Wright, Operations Director, Emergency Affairs
Expertise:

Disaster response

Jeff Wright is the Operations Director for World Vision's Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs team. In this role he leads a team of professional humanitarian workers tasked with supporting disaster responses and humanitarian emergencies around the world. Prior to his work at World Vision, Jeff held various field and headquarters-based positions with the Adventist Development & Relief Agency and with Medical Teams International, based in Portland, Oregon. Jeff's field experience in Southeast Asia goes back to 1990. Since then he has lived in Thailand and Vietnam, and provided consultation extensively in disaster responses globally.

Jeff holds the M.A. degree in cultural anthropology and is fluent in Vietnamese.

In the media

01/11/2013Humanosphere: Three years later: Was the massive humanitarian response in Haiti a success?
01/11/2011Christian Science Monitor: Haiti earthquake anniversary: the state of global disaster relief
11/23/2010Chronicle of Philanthropy: Cholera in Haiti: Do aid groups deserve some of the blame?
05/04/2009CNN (Anderson Cooper 360): Praying for rain
05/21/2008Bloomberg: China's recovery from quake to take 10 years, World Vision says
05/08/2008NPR: Burmese junta stifling aid for cyclone victims

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International news
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