Bob Kitchen is the IRC’s Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response. He began working with displaced populations in 1999 in southern Albania.
Bob went onto open new relief programs in Kosovo and East Timor, before joining the IRC in 2002. Bob’s first IRC posting was as a Field Coordinator overseeing programs in Sierra Leone. Bob went onto manage emergency programs in Iraq and Darfur, before joining the IRC’s Emergency Response Team full time in 2005. Since that time Bob has led IRC responses in Chad, Central African Republic, Indonesia, Nepal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bob most recently spent two years leading the IRC’s program in Afghanistan before taking over as Emergency Director in IRC’s NY Headquarters during the summer of 2011.
