Jean Luc Poncelet
“The world is wide open to you, be open mind to size the so many opportunities that exist, work hard, focus on one or two topics you like, do it the best way you can with intelligence and passion and the reward will come”
Country of birth: Belgium
Country of residence: United States
Areas of expertise within Global Health: Disaster management, program evaluation, program management, overall office management, emergency preparedness response, adaptation, mitigation, vulnerability reduction
Education: MD, MPH, Tropical Medicine
Professional experience: 35-year experience in public health emergency and disaster management, by providing humanitarian assistance, assisting government and institutions in establishing and developing risk reduction and disaster preparedness program, guidance and policies.
Director of the WHO Emergency and disaster preparedness program Disaster management (12 years)
WHO representative in Haiti (2013-2017)
Humanitarian program Evaluator since 2017 to date
A main contributor to safe hospital initiative
Member of global cholera task force (4 years) associated faculty at Hopkins University
Large experience with the UN and donors community
MultiPOD mentor since 2021
Languages: English, Spanish, French
Countries in which Mentor has worked: All Latin American and Caribbean countries, and several countries in the African and Middle east
Why do you want to be a Mentor?
To learn from mentee questions and hopefully be useful to them by sharing experience and addressing as honestly as possible to queries/preoccupation they have
