Biography: BirgittHotz
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Birgitt Hotz
Birgitt Hotz, from Germany, joined OCHA in April 2009 as a humanitarian affairs officer.Before that, she worked for the United Nations Population Fund on gender-based violence. Shefirst went to Mogadishu in 1988 for the German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). She had trained as a occupational therapist and held adegree in agriculture.
Birgitt Hotz recalls the beginning of the "complex emergency."