Jacobo Ocharan
Head of Political Strategies
About Jacobo
Jacobo has extensive experience working on Disaster Risk Reduction, Risk Management and Climate Action and has worked mainly with two major international NGOs: Oxfam and Plan International.
His professional journey began in 1995 during the African Great Lakes Crisis. Over the years he worked directly on the ground in more than 20 countries including some large-scale disasters such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America, Horn of Africa refugee crisis, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, or the earthquakes in Gujarat, El Salvador, Pakistan, Peru and Haiti.
Starting in 2006, he moved to Oxfam USA to work on risk reduction supporting disaster affected communities. Later, he worked in UK as Head of Risk Reduction and Climate Change at Plan International, enlarging his knowledge and practice in children´s rights. In 2019 he returned to Oxfam to lead the Global Climate Initiative. For five years he has lead Oxfam´s Climate Action including its participation a COPs.
Jacobo is a Basque based in Barcelona. He loves to do linocut, wood printing and sketching. He tries his best. Also, he volunteers as Executive Board member at Club Esportiu Europa football club, and is responsible for the female professional team (playing currently on Spain´s 3rd Division).