Ewinur Machdar

Ewinur is an environmental engineer and obtained her MSc in Environmental Science from IHE Delft – The Netherlands. She is a humanitarian and development professional with more than 18 years of experiences in Asia, Pacific and Africa regions with various organizations that includes UNICEF, Red Cross and INGOs. The Indonesian tsunami (2005), Nepal earthquakes (2016) and the Rohingya crisis both in Myanmar (2014) and Bangladesh (2018) are some of the major crises in which she has been involved. During her missions, her roles vary from field emergency expert, technical advisor, and coordination leads in the WASH sector.

Ewinur is passionate about program design and assessment, behavioural change, water quality, hygiene, menstrual hygiene management as well as in coordination. Her publications include research on the water quality that was published in the national and international scientific journal.

Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ewinur is the current COVID-19 Operations Coordinator for International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) for Indonesia and Timor Leste. In this position, she provides leadership, coordination, technical advice and mobilizes resources required for effective and efficient implementation in both countries.