Anna Wilson
Biography
Anna Wilson is Development Director at British High Commission in Kigali providing oversight and assurance for UK’s development partnership with Rwanda and Burundi. Prior to this, Anna was Deputy Development Director in Sudan leading on the UK’s humanitarian assistance. From 2015 to 2018 Anna worked as Head of UK’s Humanitarian Response Group responsible for ensuring a fast, effective response to global humanitarian emergencies including hurricanes in the Caribbean and South Pacific as well as the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Anna joined the Department for International Development (DFID) in 2003 and has worked on humanitarian and development programmes in Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Syria as well as on policy issues including debt relief, international financial institutions and private sector development. In 2017, Anna completed the UK Defence Academy’s Higher Command and Staff Course.
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