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Mr Imri Schattner-Ornan

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Biography

Imri Schattner-Ornan is a humanitarian practitioner with a research focus on humanitarian practices. His background is in Social Anthropology, with a focus on conflict and migration. He studied at the University of Cambridge, University of Paris (Nanterre) and has a post-graduate degree in International Development & Humanitarian Work from the University of Paris (Sorbonne).
Imri has worked as Project Coordinator and Project Manager with leading international relief NGOs such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Rescue Committee. His humanitarian work led him to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Liberia, Nigeria, Ethiopia and other countries. His work included providing health to refugees, managing local hospitals in post-conflict contexts, and he participated in the West-Africa Ebola response.
At Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) Imri’s main role is as a Lecturer and Programme Director - leading the MSc in Humanitarian Studies.

Research interests

Imri's research interests are focused on humanitarian practices. He is keenly interested in the ethics of humanitarian work, the relationships between the various stakeholders in the humanitarian spheres (states, non-state actors, international organisations, civil societies, communities, experts, armed-groups). He is also very interested in questions like solidarity and activism of humanitarians, and complex humanitarian contexts. 

Teaching

In addition to leading the MSc in Humanitarian Studies and the Humanitarian Health stream, Imri is also the academic lead of the LEAP PGR Leadership Programme, a collaboration between LSTM, the University of Manchester and Médecins Sans Frontières. In that programme he teaches several modules on research and evidence in the humanitarian sphere. He also teaches on LSTM's Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Diploma in Tropical Medicine. Imri is also a co-lead on an undergraduate module provided by LSTM in the University of Liverpool's politics department about humanitarian action.

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