Position:
Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Director at UNICEF, co-Lead, innovation unit at UNICEF
Work:
UNICEF
- new york city since Apr 2013
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Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Director
UNICEF
- new york since 2010
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co-Lead, innovation unit
United Nations
- new york, new york 2010 - 2011
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Senior Advisor on Innovation (a.i.), Global Pulse, UN Executive Office of the Secretary General
UNICEF
Oct 2006 - Nov 2010
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Innovation Consultant, Director’s Office, Division of Communication,
Startups in East Africa and the Middle East
- Tanzania, Egypt 2002 - 2006
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Founder
Education:
New School University 2010 - 2012
Master of Arts (MA), Communication and Media Studies
The American University in Cairo
BA, philosophy
Skills:
Disruptive Technologies, International Development, Program Management, Strategic Planning, Fundraising, Non-profits, Capacity Building, NGOs, Qualitative Research, Program Evaluation, International Relations, Organizational Development, Design Thinking, Teaching, Writing, Negotiation, Partnerships, Leadership, Visionary Thinking, Collaboration, Doodling, Visual Communication, Innovation, Nonprofits, Strategy, Start-ups, Social Entrepreneurship, Program Development, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability
Awards:
TIME 100: Most Influential People
TIME Magazine
From TIME Magazine
By Jack Dorsey April 18, 2013
More than half of the 6 million births each year in Nigeria are not recorded. Without a birth certificate, a child is much less likely to get educated, be vaccinated or receive health services. Two young UNICEF staffers — Erica Kochi and Christopher Fabian — moving fast within their 66-year-old organization, have made registering a birth as easy as sending a text. They’ve employed similar methods to prevent early deaths as well, creating systems to track the distribution of some 63 million insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets to stop the spread of malaria. Erica and Chris are using technology and accessible, intuitive interfaces to quickly transform the face of humanitarian aid and international development. The world will benefit from their continued efforts.
Dorsey is a co-creator of Twitter
Read more: http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/christopher-fabian-and-erica-kochi/#ixzz2Qp3ilPmg
Disruptor Foundation Fellow
The Disruptor Foundation
The Disruptor Foundation Fellows are a self-defining, self-organizing community of accomplished and promising innovators, applying transdisciplinary approaches in their work and daily lives to further the study and application of disruptive innovation. There are no requirements and no obligations other than to be part of an interesting community of creative “solutionaries” across domains. Mission is to go forth and multiply.
http://disruptorfoundation.org/