Antonio Donini

Antonio Donini is a senior researcher at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, Massachusetts, where he works on issues relating to humanitarianism and the future of humanitarian action. He is a former visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, Rhode Isalnd. He has worked for 26 years in the United Nations in research, evaluation, and humanitarian capacities. His last post was Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (1999-2002). He has published several articles on humanitarianism in relation to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Before going to Afghanistan he was chief of the Lessons Learned Unit at OCHA. He has published widely on evaluation, humanitarian, and UN reform issues, and has a special focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. He has coordinated the Humanitarian Agenda 2015 research project which analysed local perceptions of humanitarian action in 13 crisis countries and in 2008 he authored the final HA 2015 report, The State of the Humanitarian Enterprise (see ).