Mira Gratier is a senior adviser and research lead in humanitarian assistance, international development, climate change and peacebuilding with 25 years’ experience developing and implementing contextually relevant strategies to maximise social impact, ensure aid effectiveness, and manage risk in complex environments.
Mira is able to coordinate and inspire teams and counterparts within complex institutional structures and collaborations. She is confident in roles combining internal processes, engagement across networks and with stakeholders, and ambitious delivery goals. She is skilled at qualitative research, evaluation, analysis, organisational development & learning, accountability & risk management.
Throughout her career, Mira has found herself connecting the dots and seeking better quality and relevance by working coherently across humanitarian response, development, peacebuilding and climate adaptation outcomes.
Her work focuses on:
- Research & assessments : improved policy & practice in international development, humanitarian assistance and climate change adaptation, risk & conflict sensitivity in social impact investments
- Preparedness & crisis management : integrated climate-conflict analysis, feasibility studies, risk assessment, early warning systems, risk culture
- Organisational learning, strategy & internal policies: participatory approaches, collaborative working, thinking in systems, organisational culture & learning, partnerships
Mira is bilingual in French and English, with intermediate Dutch. She has lived and worked in Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Lebanon, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Senegal and India and in Italy, the UK, France and Belgium, carrying out extensive field monitoring, managing complex programmes and ensuring rigorous research, analysis and evaluation activities underpin strategic and operational decisions.
She has worked remotely and carried out short missions in: Somalia/Somaliland, the Central African Republic (CAR), Syria, Nigeria, Gabon, Ivory Coast/Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroun, Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Haiti, Eritrea, Niger, and the Gambia.