Mark is head of the Disaster Risk Finance team for FCDO in the Public Finance and Tax Department and based in the UK. The DRF team overseas UK support to the Centre for Disaster Protection, WB Global Shield Financing Facility (GS-FF); WB Disaster Protection Programme (DPP); African Risk Capacity (ARC) and ARC Replica and START Ready. Mark previously led the Economic and Private Sector team for FCDO Yemen and the Private Sector and Agriculture work in Rwanda. Mark also has extensive experience on social protection, livelihoods and managing risk, including leading work on Kenya’s HSNP and before FCDO, leading the Institute of Development Studies Centre for Social Protection.