UK for UNHCR
Emma Cherniavsky is the Chief Executive Officer at UK for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) since September 2020, bringing extensive leadership experience in the nonprofit sector. Prior to this role, Emma served as Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Fundraising for the Liberal Democrats from July 2014 to August 2020, where strategic and operational leadership was provided, along with oversight of annual fundraising. Emma's experience also includes roles as Chief Development Officer at International Crisis Group, where an $18 million fundraising operation was overseen, and as Deputy Development Director at Human Rights Watch, where fundraising and advocacy efforts were significantly expanded. Emma holds an MA in International Law from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in International Relations from Brown University.
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UK for UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency’s national charity for the United Kingdom. Our corporate, trust and foundation partnerships, as well as the generosity of individual supporters, help UNHCR protect people forced to flee conflict, violence and persecution. Our work supports emergency relief operations as well as longer term care to help refugees rebuild their lives, such as healthcare, education and livelihoods programmes. UNHCR operates on more than 120 countries, including major humanitarian crises such as Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and South Sudan. With only 1% of UNHCR’s budget funded by the United Nations, partnerships and donations are critical to UNHCR’s humanitarian work across the world. UK for UNHCR is a registered charity (England & Wales) no. 1183415. ********* UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is the lead United Nations agency dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced people, asylum seekers and stateless persons.