Meinie Nicolai is a senior humanitarian advisor and public health expert. Meinie has more than 30 years of humanitarian experience with MSF both, in the direct running of field operations as in strategic roles in the Head Quarters of the organization. A nurse by profession with an MSc in Public Health of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Meinie has been directly involved in complex crisis situations such as Somalia, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South-Sudan, Angola, Libya, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Central Africa. After almost 10 years in complex humanitarian operations, Meinie has been leading the operations as Director of Operations and was the president of the MSF Belgium association before being nominated as the General Director of MSF OCB.