Aurélia Balpe

Ms Aurélia Balpe is an international humanitarian leader with experience in the non-profit and for-profit sectors in Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Ms Balpe has worked with boards and senior executive teams on the development of strategy and policy, legal compliance, risk management, organisational performance and the resolution of integrity issues. Ms Balpe has had oversight of multinational programs in organisational development, disaster response and law, water and sanitation and health. Ms Balpe has been a strategic advisor to governments, United Nations agencies, regional organisations and corporations on humanitarian action and coordination. Ms Balpe currently serves as a member of the Australian Red Cross Divisional Advisory Board. In 2015 she was awarded the Vanuatu Red Cross medal for her contribution to the Tropical Cyclone Pam Relief Operation. In 2017 she was the recipient of the Monash University Top Achievement and Dean’s Awards for her MBA. Ms Balpe is currently undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Psychology.