Nick Macdonald
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Adjunct Instructor Phone: 503-238-0487 |
Nick Macdonald is a relief and development worker with over ten years of experience in conflict, natural disasters, and developing countries working for a variety of relief and development organizations. He has a professional focus on leading innovative programming that combines local strengths and capacities with international best practices to produce locally tailored interventions. His field experience includes work in Kosovo, Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Indonesia, Central Asia, and leadership roles in Mercy Corps' responses to the Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005. He has worked with major relief and development agencies including Save the Children, International Rescue Committee, and CARE. He currently works for Mercy Corps, forging innovative partnerships between development practitioners and academic researchers to improve development practice. He received a BSc in Psychology and an MA in Post-war Recovery Studies from the University of York in the UK.
