Kathryn Taetzsch has over 20 years of strategic and operational humanitarian response and academic research private sector collaboration experience in fragile and natural disaster affected contexts in Africa, Asia, and Middle East, and Latin America, with the Institute for Peace Research & Security Studies, GIZ and World Vision, and currently serves as Global Director of Humanitarian Partnerships & Cash Voucher Programmes, and as conference speaker/ moderator on inter-agency discussions, publications, and in other functions as CashCap Board Chair, Co-Lead of the Inter-Agency Collaborative Cash Delivery Platform (CCD), member of the Grand Bargain/SPIAC-B Humanitarian Cash & Social Protection Group, UN’s Connecting Business Initiative Complex Emergencies’ Toolkit Expert Group among other engagements.