Anouk Boschma is an MHPSS Technical Advisor, working for IFRC's Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support. Her academic background is in social and cross-cultural psychology + international humanitarian action, after which she worked as a humanitarian operational and programs manager and director in Latin America/the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia as well as Europe. While working she specialized more in the combination of her two fields: MHPSS and humanitarian action.