Prior to his appointment as Director at ODAIT, Daniel MacSweeney gained significant experience in leading multidisciplinary humanitarian programmes with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He worked as ICRC Envoy on Missing Persons in the Caucasus from 2021-2023, the ICRC’s Head of Protection Operations from 2016-2021, based in the Geneva headquarters, ICRC Protection Coordinator in Yemen, Afghanistan and Lebanon from 2011-2016, and ICRC Delegate in Afghanistan, Iraq and Tunisia from 2007-2011. Daniel holds a BA and LLB from the University of Galway and worked as a solicitor in Ireland, the UK and the Middle East before joining the ICRC.