Marie Sophie Pettersson

Marie Sophie Pettersson is Senior Gender, Humanitarian and Peacebuilding Adviser with Oxfam Denmark where she specialises in Women, Peace and Security policy and programming globally and across East and West Africa and the Middle East. Marie has 15 years’ experience in addressing gender dimensions before, during and after crises, conflicts and disasters, as well as in refugee and displacement situations. Prior to joining Oxfam, she worked as Gender and Humanitarian Specialist and Portfolio Lead with UN Women in the Country Offices of Jordan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Afghanistan, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and with the Regional Office for Asia-Pacific. Previously she worked as Gender Adviser with the UK AID Economic Empowerment of the Poorest (EEP) programme in Bangladesh and as a Research Project Coordinator for Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) also in Bangladesh. Marie is the Board President of a Rohingya refugee women-led CSO "Refugee Women for Peace and Justice". Marie Sophie has a Masters in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).