Nahuel Arenas-García

Nahuel Arenas is the Deputy Chief of the Regional Office for the Americas & the Caribbean of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) since 2017. For more than 20 years, Mr. Arenas has been leading humanitarian assistance interventions, disaster risk reduction (DRR) programming and development cooperation in different countries in Latin America & Caribbean, Africa and the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining UNDRR, Mr. Arenas occupied the position of Director for Humanitarian Programs and Policy for OXFAM USA. He has also worked for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Action Against Hunger (ACF), consulted for UN-Habitat leading learning processes around DRR interventions and contributed to many capacity building programs including the Harvard X / Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Course: Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disasters. He has a background in Public Policy (FLACSO) and International Politics (SOAS, Univ. of London) as well as degrees in Crisis Management (Universidad Complutense of Madrid). He is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Global Ethics of the University of Birmingham.