Alice Hawkes

Alice joined Elrha in 2024 and leads our Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) programme, which supports problem-led, responsible and impactful humanitarian innovation.

Alice has over a 16 years’ experience in the humanitarian sector, focused for the past five years on humanitarian research and innovation.  Before joining Elrha, Alice worked with the International Rescue Committee as a Senior Technical Advisor in Violence Prevention and Response responsible for the development and testing of innovative programme models and approaches which explored inclusive humanitarian programming, localisation and advancing the centrality of protection. In this role Alice managed the development of programming tools, guidance, curriculum and the generation of evidence through research and learning, using these materials to catalyse evidence-based advocacy to influence policy and practice humanitarian response.

Alice is driven by a commitment to innovative humanitarian programming rooted in strong context analysis, and driven by local and national responders, and is passionate about the potential for humanitarian innovation to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises.