Martin Thomsen

Martin is a Lieutenant Colonel within the Danish Emergency Management Agency, Danish Ministry of Defence. At present he is the Deputy Head of College at the Emergency Services College in Denmark. He also serves as a consultant to the United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN/OCHA) as a member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination team (UNDAC) since May 2003. He is a trained EU High Level Coordinator at the European Commission within the European Commission, Community Mechanism for reinforced Cooperation in Civil Protection Assistance Interventions (EU/MIC) since March 2004, as well as a Civilian Response Team (CRT) member of the same organisation since March 2006. He has contributed to Sahana as a member of its leadership team since 2005 and served on its Board since its inception.