Cedric Petit

Cedric Petit, a native of France, first worked in Somalia in 1994, when he was anadministrator with Pharmaciens Sans Frontires (PSF). He spent the next 11 years with a varietyof NGOs based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso and Afghanistan, amongothers. For much of 2007, he worked for OCHA in Darfur before moving in October to Somalia asa senior humanitarian affairs officer and head of the OCHA sub-office for south-central Somalia.

Cedric Petit discusses his career in humanitarian work.