SIMAR SINGH
Technical Advisor
Chief Program Officer, RefugePoint
Simar Singh is RefugePoint’s Chief Program Officer and a member of the RSRI team. She was previously the RSRI Lead representing RefugePoint. She has fifteen years of experience in creating partnerships and developing policy and standards of practice to improve the lives of people affected by war and other crises.
She previously worked at Conflict Dynamics International and the Watchlist on Children in Armed Conflict. Simar is a skilled facilitator and has designed and delivered training on child protection, humanitarian access and humanitarian negotiation for UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs. She has undertaken work in several humanitarian and emergency settings including Afghanistan, Colombia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, and Yemen. Her work has been published in Forced Migration Review, Humanitarian Exchange, and the UN Chronicle. She has presented her research at the United Nations, inter-agency technical meetings and conferences and has also been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, New York University and the Boston College School of Social Work.
Simar holds a graduate degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an undergraduate degree in international relations from Mount Holyoke College.
