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The IRC employs thousands of staff members from around the globe, the majority from the communities we assist, who are on the front lines of humanitarian response. The following are just a few of the IRC experts available for media interviews.
Richard Brennan
As director of the IRC’s Health Unit, Richard Brennan has helped lead health response teams in Kosovo and East Timor; established an emergency medicine residency in Bosnia; conducted the IRC’s health assessment in Aceh following the 2004 tsunami; and collaborated on start-up health programs in Darfur.
Prior to joining the IRC, Rick worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on projects dealing with health response to chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. A clinical emergency room physician by training, he received his medical degree from the University of Sydney and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University.
Bob Carey
Bob Carey is the IRC’s vice president of resettlement, responsible for the organization’s extensive resettlement program which each year helps thousands of arrivals receive food, clothing and shelter, as well as translation services, English-language instruction, job training and other counseling.
In 2005, Bob played a key role in marshalling resources to resettle victims of Hurricane Katrina. He has traveled to the Balkans, Southeast Asia, West Africa, Europe and all 23 national resettlement offices to advocate on behalf of refugees.
Before joining the IRC, Bob worked as the director of immigration for the Tolstoy Foundation and in the private sector
TOPICS: Resettlement; refugee admissions; U.S. immigration policy.
Emmanuel d'Harcourt
Emmanuel d'Harcourt joined the IRC in 1999 as manager of its first Child Survival Program in Rwanda, and is now senior technical advisor for Child Survival. Emmanuel provides technical support for IRC's health programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and southern Sudan.
Emmanuel served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal before attending medical school at Johns Hopkins University and completing a pediatric residency at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is on the board of the CORE Group, the main U.S. association of child survival organizations, and presents frequently on child survival and post-conflict topics at forums such as the Global Health Council, the American Public Health Association and the World Bank.
Gerald Martone
Gerald Martone is director of humanitarian affairs at the IRC’s headquarters in New York, where he works on humanitarian advocacy initiatives to influence policy and on generating public support for people affected by political oppression, disasters and violent conflict.
During the previous 10 years at IRC, Gerald was director of emergency response, overseeing emergency operations and assessments in Burundi, Liberia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Congo, Sierra Leone, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, East Timor, northern Uganda, Albania, Angola, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Darfur-Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and tsunami-affected areas of Indonesia.
Gerald has served two elected terms as co-chair of the Disaster Response Committee of InterAction and has been a member of the Sphere Project Management Committee. He has participated in the U.N. Inter-Agency Emergency Mission to East Timor and in the UNHCR Mission to Angola. Gerald is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs. He has published numerous articles and book chapters covering a variety of topics on international aid and is an active spokesperson for human rights and humanitarian assistance.
Jana Mason
As the IRC’s director for government relations, Jana Mason advocates for humane international and U.S. policies toward refugees and other forced migrants. Before joining IRC in 2003, she spent 11 years with the U.S. Committee for Refugees as policy analyst for the Asia/Pacific region and advocate for refugee protection and assistance. Jana has worked in the refugee arena since 1983. She has a bachelor’s degree from Boston University, a master’s degree from the University of Virginia, and a law degree from Georgetown University.
TOPICS: Refugee and immigration law; refugees and displaced populations in the Asia/Pacific region.
Anne Richard
Anne C. Richard is Vice President, Government Relations & Advocacy of the International Rescue Committee. She is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS-John Hopkins University. She is the author of: Role Reversal: Offers of Help From Other Countries in Response to Hurricane Katrina (published by the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins/SAIS), Fighting Terrorist Financing: Transatlantic Cooperation and International Institutions (published by the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins/SAIS) and Superpower on the Cheap? The Difficulty of Funding US Foreign Relations (published by Le Centre Francais sur les Etats Unis at IFRI). She previously worked in the US Goverment at the US Department of State, Peace Corps headquarters and the US Office of Management and Budget. She is a former fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Robert Bosch Foundation and is on the boards of the Henry L. Stimson Center, the US Global Leadership Campaign and Americans for Informed Democracy. She is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S. Foreign Service) and the University of Chicago (M.A. Public Policy Studies).
