Rebecca Liron

Rebecca Liron is Deputy Director for Humanitarian Response at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), where she leads CGI's humanitarian response portfolio and works to mobilize partnerships and resources for locally led responses to humanitarian crises. She has more than 10 years of international humanitarian experience across the UN, NGOs, foundations and research institutions, with particular expertise in forced displacement, community-based protection, child protection and support to women and girls. Her experience spans contexts including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire. At CGI, she has supported humanitarian partnerships and locally led responses in contexts including Sudan, Ukraine and the DRC. Rebecca holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University and studied Political Science and International Studies at Northwestern University.