Brian Heidel has worked on international disaster responses and development programs for more than 37 years. From 2009-2025, he worked as a Team Lead and Advisor with USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, leading numerous major disaster responses in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe, including a 2 month deployment in Liberia working on the Ebola outbreak in 2015. He also supported a wide range of global disaster preparedness initiatives. From 1988-2006, he filled country leadership roles in Asia with Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services and the American Refugee Committee, focused on health, water/sanitation, education, and many other sectors. During that time, he worked with Cambodian refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border from 1988-1989 and served as the Country Director of the American Refugee Committee program in Cambodia from 1992-1996 supporting Cambodian NGOs and community initiatives, and in 1994, co-founded the Cambodian Health Committee. Brian, who is fluent in Thai, served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand from 1986-88. He received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Drake University (1984) and received a master’s degree in international development studies with a focus on Southeast Asia from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1992).

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