Ralf Südhoff

Title:	Director
Email:	ralf.suedhoff@chaberlin.org

Ralf Südhoff has been founding director of the Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA) since January 2019. He focusses on German and European humanitarian action, humanitarian reform and human security issues, the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, and the MENA region.

Before joining CHA, Ralf was Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Bureau for the Syria Crisis in Amman (2017-2018). Prior to that, he was Director of the WFP Office in Berlin for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for almost 10 years. In addition, Ralf was Head of External Relations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Bonn and advisor to Ms Uschi Eid, former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. As a journalist, Ralf worked as South American correspondent for the weekly newspaper Die ZEIT in Rio de Janeiro and as editor in charge of the commentary & analysis section of the Financial Times Deutschland. Ralf served as member of the Oxfam Germany’s board for 10 years.

Ralf holds a Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Warwick and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Hamburg.

Recent interviews and other media coverage with Ralf are linked in the Media Hub.

Ralf speaks English, German and Portuguese.