Alasan Senghore became director of Africa for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in October 2009 – based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is responsible for managing the IFRC’s humanitarian activities covering 46 countries throughout the continent.. He started his Red Cross Red Crescent career in 1976. when he worked as a youth and field officer for the Gambia Red Cross and later became its Secretary General (1986 -1992).. Alasan later joined the IFRC in 1992 as a relief administrator for the Somali refugee operation in Kenya, later becoming head of sub-delegation and then head of delegation for Kenya until June 1994. He returned to the Gambia Red Cross as Secretary General until August 1995.. In September 1995, he joined the ICRC as a cooperation delegate in Kenya and later became the ICRC deputy head of mission to the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and, later, the ICRC’s cooperation delegate and deputy head of the regional delegation in Harare, Zimbabwe (2000-2008). He later became head of sector for Africa at the cooperation department of the ICRC in Geneva (2000-2002).. In January 2003, Alasan re-joined IFRC as head of regional delegation for Southern Africa, and then in June 2004 became the head of the regional delegation for West and Central Africa. In 2007, he became the head of zone for West and Central Africa.. Alasan Senghore holds an MBA with a diploma on development studies from the Pan African Institute for Development in Cameroon.. Born in Gambia, he speaks English and French.
