Alice Armanni Sequi

Alice Armanni Sequi is Chief of OCHA’s Pooled Fund Branch. In this role she oversees the management of UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund and the Country-Based Pooled Funds, which channel some $2 billion in humanitarian resources annually.  She brings more than 20 years of humanitarian and banking experience. Prior to her current appointment, Sequi served as OCHA’s Head of Office in Ukraine and Chad, as Chief of OCHA’s Advocacy and Operations in Central and West Africa and as the Coordinator of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Emergency Directors Group. Before she joined the UN, Sequi worked with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, supporting humanitarian diplomacy, advocacy and resource mobilization.