Vaux, Tony

Tony Vaux was for over 20 years one of Oxfam's leading emergency managers. He is the founding director of Humanitarian Initiatives, which promotes exchange on conflict-related issues among practitioners. He has been a consultant to DFID, UNDP, and Swiss Development Cooperation; and in 2005 led a UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) team evaluating post-Tsunami assistance. Previously he was responsible for Oxfam GB s programmes in West India (1976-1980) and East India and Bhutan (1982-1984), coordinated its emergency response department (1984-1994), and managed its work in Eastern Europe and