Aninia Nadig
Aninia’s expertise lies in various aspects of forced migration and humanitarian standards. She worked for many years with Sphere, where her last position was Head of Policy and Practice. She was closely involved in humanitarian standards revision processes, both for Sphere and the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS). Aninia is now an independent consultant, developing standards and guidance, and facilitating Sphere and CHS trainings.
In earlier lives, Aninia was Country Analyst at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), covering the Horn of Africa; she lived and worked in the Netherlands, focusing on Dutch and EU refugee and asylum policy issues; and she started her career with refugee status determination for the Swiss Federal Office for Refugees.
Aninia studied Political Science in Lausanne and holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam. She lives near Geneva.
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