Wojtek Wilk PhD

CEO of the Polish Center for International Aid Foundation. Expert in crisis management and humanitarian coordination. During his professional career responded to over 25 humanitarian crises, ranging from mass population movements in the Balkans to the Syrian refugee crisis in the Middle East.

Before joining PCPM in 2012, he worked with the United Nations (OCHA) in country offices, regional office and headquarters locations. Among others, he co-authored UN humanitarian response plans for the countries such asSudan, Yemen, Syria, UN contingency plans as well as participated in establishing the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and UN Humanitarian Pooled Fund for Yemen. In Kosovo, with UNHCR, he facilitated the return of Serbian IDPs.

In 2015, he participated in coordination of humanitarian aid during the earthquake response operation in Nepal as the Inter-Cluster Coordinator, while in 2019-20 acted as the Head of OCHA Coordination Unit for northern Syria.

In 2015, created the Poland Emergency Medical Team PCPM, the first and only team in Poland to be certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the part of the EU Civil Protection Pool. Team Leader of EMT PCPM missions to Nepal (earthquake, 2015), Tajikistan (COVID, 2020), Ethiopia (COVID, 2020), Uganda (COVID, 2021) and Madagascar (cyclones, 2022).

PCPM – Polish Center for International Aid, which he leads and manages, is one of the largest humanitarian and development aid NGOs in Poland and Eastern Europe. PCPM has implemented projects in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Nepal, Peru, South Sudan, Uganda, Malawi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Ukraine, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, PCPM has managed Transit Center for Ukrainian refugees at Warsaw East Railway Station and, starting September 2022, MEDEVAC HUB Jasionka—a medical transit center for patients from Ukraine, being part of the EU-coordinated system of medical evacuation for sick and wounded patients from Ukraine.