The Salt Spring Forum is proud to present Nigel Fisher, a person who Stephen Lewis calls a “sublime humanitarian”, for a powerful discussion about international crisis response. Whenever a humanitarian disaster or mass injustice has occurred, anywhere in the world, Nigel Fisher has likely been there – organizing a relief operation on part of the United Nations.

Fisher, the former President and CEO of UNICEF Canada, has worked with UNICEF and the United Nations for three decades. Most recently, he served as the UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the crisis in Syria, which has generated over 2 million refugees. Fisher also headed the UN Stabilization Mission after the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He worked in Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami, in Pakistan and Afghanistan after the 2001 attacks on the United States, and in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. In Canada, he put the spotlight on child poverty in First Nations communities.