Darina Pellowska

Title:	Research Fellow
Email:	darina.pellowska@chaberlin.org

Darina Pellowska is Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA). She coordinates strategic partnerships and fundraising and works on issues of local leadership, partner management, participation, humanitarian innovation, and risk management in humanitarian contexts.

Before joining CHA, Darina worked as freelance consultant for various aid organisations. Her focus areas included accountability to affected populations and conflict-sensitive humanitarian aid. Darina also has experience in operational project work.

Darina holds a Master of Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Transformation from the University of Tromsø (Norway) and is currently working on a dissertation on ‘Local Relations and Risk’ at the Ruhr University Bochum.

She has international research experience in South Sudan, Sudan and Syria and speaks German, English, Norwegian and French.