Noa Dumond is a Disaster Preparedness and Response Officer with the French Red Cross platform for the Pacific, based in New Caledonia. Her work focuses on disaster preparedness, emergency response and regional coordination across the South Pacific, in close partnership with national authorities, humanitarian actors and communities.
She has experience supporting government-led emergency response, including with the National Disaster Management Office of Vanuatu, and has contributed to preparedness planning, risk monitoring, civil–military coordination and capacity building. Her work places a strong emphasis on locally led approaches that strengthen existing systems.
She holds a Master’s degree in Crisis and Security Management from Leiden University and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Melbourne.
She is particularly interested in disaster risk reduction and the intersection between humanitarian action, policy and diplomacy in the Pacific.
