Jessie Thomson is Head of Delegation at International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Greece. Prior to joining IFRC, she was the Senior Director of Program Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at CARE Canada as well as the Senior Director of CARE Canada’s Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Team. With CARE, she was deployed to Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Haiti, Chad, Mali, Kenya, Djibouti, and Turkey. Prior to working with CARE, Thomson worked as a protection delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Pakistan; as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, leading the development of Canadian policy related to refugees, IDPs and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); and, as a Senior Policy Advisor and Manager in the Resettlement Division in Refugees Branch at Citizenship and Immigration Canada. As a 2008 Walter and Gordon Duncan Foundation Global Youth Fellow, Thomson co-produced and co-directed Home Free, a short film about the 1972 Burundian refugees in Tanzania. Thomson began her career with the UNHCR in London and as a volunteer with World University Service of Canada’s Student Refugee Program at the University of Toronto.