Join independent humanitarian researcher and advocate Carla Vitantonio for this short podcast series featuring interviews with speakers and guests from the 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference.
Recorded over April 8-9 2025 in Doha, Qatar, Carla asks her guests:
- In times of polycrisis, what is one opportunity for you and your organisation, and what is one opportunity?
- Share one point from the Conference that makes you hopeful about the future and why?
By capturing the voices of those who participated, Carla collects a memory of this unique moment where people from 85 countries gathered and discussed about how to bring about a meaningful change in the humanitarian space.
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Episode 1 | Mary Ana McGlasson, CHL Director
Episode 2 | Sandra Macias del Villar, Co-director of the Alliance for Feminist Movement
Episode 3 | Tammam Aloudat, CEO of The New Humanitarian
Episode 4 | Rami Nazem Rajjoub, CEO of Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation
Episode 5 | Engwase Mwale, CEO of the Zambia Governance Foundation
Episode 6 | Asier Hernando Malax-Echevarria, Co-Director of Acapacà
Bonus track | Lars Peter Niessen & Carla Vitantonio
This bonus track is a cross-interview between Carla and Lars Peter Niessen, author of the podcast Trumanitarian. After the end of the Humanitarian Leadership Conference, Carla and Lars Peter share their feelings and talk about how this experience will shape their future podcasts and life as humanitarian, podcasters and changemakers. They talk about power, leadership, localisation, decoloniality, but also about podcast as a way to collect memory and promote change.
The 2025 Humanitarian Leadership Conference was organised by the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership in partnership with the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies.
