Dominic MacSorley is the Chief Executive Officer of Concern Worldwide, Ireland’s largest international humanitarian and development organization that operates in 24 of the world’s poorest countries. Dominic studied law at Queen’s University Belfast before joining Concern in 1982 as part of their extensive refugee operations on the Thai/Cambodian border. Over the next three decades, he went on to lead Concern’s responses to some of the world’s most devastating humanitarian emergencies including Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, and Iraq. Prior to his appointment as CEO in 2013, Dominic represented Concern at the UN in New York and with major donors in Washington DC and continues to serve on the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, the highest-level humanitarian coordination forum. Dominic was awarded an OBE in 2009 in recognition of his services to international humanitarian aid and, two years later, was honored by the Northern Ireland All Party Group on International Development for his outstanding contribution to international humanitarianism. As an experienced humanitarian, Dominic remains passionately committed to social justice and the end to global hunger and poverty.