Norwegian Refugee Council - USA

Jochen Riegg

Jochen Riegg is the Global Lead for Humanitarian Access at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Acting Director for NRC USA. He brings deep and wide-ranging experience in humanitarian access, negotiations, and coordination across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He has held senior leadership roles with NRC and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), leading teams in high-risk environments and engaging governments, armed actors, donors, and member states — including at the UN Security Council — to secure humanitarian access and protect humanitarian space. Drawing on his frontline experience, Jochen has informed global policy on humanitarian principles, access, civil–military coordination, and risk management. He has led humanitarian engagement and negotiations from field-level dialogues to high-level humanitarian diplomacy in politically charged contexts.

Jochen holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. 

Hannah Grierson-Good

Hannah Grierson-Good is the HR, Finance, and Admin Manager for NRC USA. Ms. Grierson-Good joined NRC USA in May 2022 and supports the overall operations, compliance, and finance work of the NRC USA office.

Hannah previously worked as the Humanitarian Access Project Manager on NRC's Global Access team and the Administration, Finance, and Advocacy Technical Officer at NRC USA. She also has experience working in humanitarian contexts with St. Andrews Refugee Relief Services in Cairo, Egypt. She is passionate about addressing climate-driven displacement and humanitarian access.

Ms. Grierson-Good graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an emphasis in International Security and Development. Hannah also studied Arabic and conflict and peacebuilding at the American University of Cairo. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in International Affairs from George Washington University. Originally hailing from Camano Island, Washington, she loves hiking, reading, and spending time near the ocean.

Aaron Gershowitz

Aaron Gershowitz is the Senior Institutional Partnership Adviser for NRC USA. He serves as the focal point for US-based governmental and foundation donors, maintaining strong relationships with these vital partners and ensuring that all submissions and communications meet the highest quality standards. He also provides training and support to NRC’s field operations teams working on US-funded projects worldwide.

Prior to joining NRC USA in November 2019, Mr. Gershowitz served as Associate Vice President for International Program Operations at HIAS, where he was responsible for building the organization’s capacity to implement projects serving refugees in Latin America and Africa. Prior to that Mr. Gershowitz led HIAS’ refugee resettlement and integration programs across the United States. Mr. Gershowitz has a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Russian Language from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Brian Komar

Brian Komar is a social impact expert whose career includes leadership roles in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Brian previously served as Vice President, Global Impact Engagement at Salesforce.org. The team helps advance the stakeholder impact movement by enabling Salesforce.org to measure, manage, and improve their impact and align how best to help their NGO, EDU, and COM customers to do the same.

Brian previously was VP, Marketing and Outreach where he built Salesforce.org’s global marketing and outreach team. Prior to joining Salesforce.org in 2012, Brian drove the go-to-market innovation strategy for Salesforce’s Public Sector team as Director of Industry Solutions. Before joining Salesforce, Brian led social change digital transformation portfolios for nearly twenty years serving in leadership positions at the Center for American Progress and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights where he was founder of civilrights.org.

Brian has written numerous articles on social change and digital transformation, which have appeared in Triple Pundit, Knowledge@Wharton, The Nation, Sales 2.0, and The Huffington Post. Brian’s innovations work was featured in CRM @ The Speed of Light. Brian holds an MPP in public policy from Georgetown University, a BA from the University of Illinois where he graduated cum laude.

Ambassador Mark C. Storella (ret.)

Mark Storella is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies where he teaches humanitarian affairs, health diplomacy, multilateral diplomacy and diplomatic negotiation and theory.

As a career diplomat for over thirty years, Mark Storella was US Ambassador to Zambia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, and Dean of the State Department’s Leadership and Management School. In the State Department refugee bureau, he oversaw the US, refugee admissions program and US humanitarian assistance in Asia and the Middle East. He also was Deputy Permanent Representatives to the UN in Geneva where he was the first US representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Counselor for Humanitarian Affairs in Geneva and Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees and IDPs in Baghdad.

Ambassador Storella began his work with refugees as a student volunteer helping resettle Southeast Asian refugees in the Boston area.

Ambassador Storella received his AB from Harvard College and his MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has written on such diverse subjects as humanitarianism in conflict situations, global health and multilateral diplomacy.

John Kluge

John Kluge is a social entrepreneur and impact investor dedicated to building more sustainable, just, and inclusive economies.

He is the Founder of the Refugee Investment Network (RIN), the first impact investing and blended finance collaborative dedicated to long-term solutions to forced migration. At the RIN, John has co-led the development of strategy, programs, and partnerships that are building the field of ‘refugee and migration lens' investing.

He recently launched a new, nature-based social venture, Thistlerock Mead Company (TMC) which combines ancient honey wine fermentation practices with modern regenerative agriculture to protect pollinators and conserve native ecosystems while supporting the livelihoods of veteran, women, and refugee beekeepers in the U.S. and in emerging markets around the world.

John has served as trustee for Babson College where he helped lead the investment committee's first exploration of ESG and DEI efforts, and currently serves as an Advisor to the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, as a Director for the New Hill Development Corporation, and is an active member of the American Mead Makers Association. He is the co-author of the book, Charity & Philanthropy for Dummies (Wylie, 2013), the author of John Kluge: Stories (Columbia University Press, 2008) and has written about the intersection of business and social impact for Forbes and Conscious Company Magazine. Kluge holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an MBA from the Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

Camilla Waszink

Camilla Waszink is currently NRC’s Executive Director of Partnerships and Policy, leading the organization’s global advocacy and humanitarian policy work and its partnerships with institutional donors, UN agencies and NGOs. Waszink was previously Chief of Staff to Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and continues as a member of NRC’s Senior Management Group.

Before joining NRC, she was Programme Director at the International Law and Policy Institute and has previously held positions as an adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Norwegian Red Cross and the Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution. Waszink has also worked as a researcher and consultant, including for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Small Arms Survey and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. She has published extensively on protection of civilians, international humanitarian law, arms control and disarmament. 

NRC USA’s advocacy promotes US policies that assist and protect vulnerable populations. The policy work and field expertise of NRC USA and NRC staff have established NRC USA as a trusted resource within the humanitarian community. They serve regularly as panelists at leading institutions and as policy focal points, speaking to US policy and its impact on refugees and internally displaced people. NRC USA's advocacy is rooted in the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence. 

NRC USA also houses staff focused on three thematic areas: humanitarian access to vulnerable populations in hard-to-reach environments, community-based protection, and cash assistance for refugees and displaced persons.

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Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize

On October 21, 2022, NRC recieved the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize at the 2022 Hilton Humanitarian Symposium and Prize Ceremony in Beverly Hills, California. NRC USA staff participated in the symposium that featured esteemed speakers, including: Soledad O’Brien, Warsan Shire, Lynsey Addario, Joyce Msuya, Dr. Natalia Kanem, and many more. The theme of the 2022 event was the "The Power of Perseverance". 

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