Alper Küçük
Turkish Red Crescent
Director General for International Affairs & Migration Services
Alper has worked more than thirteen years in the humanitarian field, predominantly with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and the United Nations.
From 2008 to 2014, he has undertaken a broad-range of field-based positions with the Turkish Red Crescent globally, which includes managing humanitarian assistance programmes for vulnerable populations in sudden-onset emergencies, protracted and complex environment and as well as transition situations from emergency to recovery and development. His fieldwork has been undertaken in emergencies in more than 30 countries in Africa, Middle East, Asia, Balkans and Americas.
His field and headquarters have included the undertaking of life-saving and life-sustaining programmes and projects in multiple humanitarian sectors, emergency response coordination, humanitarian access, logistics and as well as financing and this have formed the basis for a solid understanding of humanitarian issues from both policy and operational perspectives.
Between 2014 and late 2017, he worked for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Turkey, as a Field Coordinator and civil-military coordination officer for cross-border humanitarian response within the scope of Syria Crisis and later as the Head of OCHA Liaison Office in Ankara.
Alper has Masters Degrees in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid and also in Social Work from Kalu Institute in Spain and Ankara University in Turkey respectively.
He is currently serving in the capacity of the Director General for International Affairs & Migration Services of the Turkish Red Crescent, in charge of the organisation's international relations, humanitarian programmes and refugee and migration services globally.