Heidi Lehmann
Email: heidil@theirc.org

Heidi Lehmann, Senior Gender-Based Violence Technical Advisor, has over 10 years of experience working in the field of gender-based violence. For the past five years she has worked for the IRC designing and implementing GBV programs in conflict and post-conflict settings.  She spent two years in Sierra Leone developing a nation-wide GBV program before going on to work in Liberia, Thailand, the DRC and Sudan. During her nine months in Darfur she established IRC’s GBV program.  In Thailand she started the innovative Men Involved in Peace Building Project to positively engage men in preventing violence against women and girls. Currently based in New York, Heidi is the IRC Senior Technical Advisor responsible for supporting GBV programs in Burundi, Chad, DRC, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda.