Degan Ali is an internationally-renowned humanitarian leader and organizational development consultant.
She has been at the forefront of shifting power for decades. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Global Fellow for Social Innovation, a contributor to the Overseas Development Institute/Humanitarian Policy Group and the Global Food Security Journal. Her work has been featured on The New York Times, Al Jazeera and The Guardian.
Prior to founding DA Global, Degan:
- Led Adeso, an organization that made cash transfers a significant, legitimate method of delivering aid to vulnerable populations, beginning with the first large-scale cash transfer program during the 2011 Somalia famine.
- Established the target of 20% localization which evolved into the UN’s 25% Grand Bargain commitment, ensuring this percentage of humanitarian funding is allocated to local and national responders by 2020.
- Architect and founder of the Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR): the first global south civil society network advocating for the transformation of humanitarian and development aid architecture.
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She lives in Kenya and works with organizations across the Global North and Global South.
