Kimberly Brown

Kimberly joined the GSMA in July 2020 as the Head of Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation. Her team works with the mobile industry and humanitarian organizations to accelerate the delivery and impact of digital humanitarian assistance by catalyzing partnerships, investing in innovation, unlocking policy barriers, and delivering original research. Before GSMA, she was the Head of Humanitarian Policy at the British Red Cross, where she led the department responsible for policy, advocacy, and research on international humanitarian issues.

Kimberly has worked for several humanitarian organizations, with a focus on building partnerships in multilateral processes and negotiations. She has worked on the Sustainable Development Goals, the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants, the Grand Bargain (World Humanitarian Summit), the Paris Climate Agreement, the Mine Ban Treaty, and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Kimberly worked in Asia-Pacific with the IFRC, during the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, on new global disaster preparedness guidelines. She has also focused on humanitarian issues such as children in armed conflict, principled humanitarian action, and the protection of civilians.

She holds a BA in Psychology from UBC (Vancouver), and a MA in International Development Studies and Political Science from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) where her thesis focused on the displacement of Myanmar refugees in Thailand. In July 2020, she completed an Executive MBA at London Business School. She has been deployed to and worked across, several humanitarian contexts in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East