Chris has held senior NGO Support Office roles in London, Melbourne and Brussels; as well as senior Field Office NGO, UN and Government appointments in Bangladesh (NGO Field Director & UNDP Adviser), Somalia (NGO Team Leader), Kampuchea (aka Cambodia) – NGO Deputy Country Director, Tonga (Government DRM Adviser) and Vanuatu (Church agency DRR Adviser). He has separately carried out multiple humanitarian consultancies for a mixture of NGOs, church agencies and Governments in PNG, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Somalia, Albania & Australia. Examples of some of his consultancy work, and other related activities, are summarised further down on this page.

Marilyn has a Master of Public Health (MPH) where she carried out field work for this in Belize.  She has worked for a combination of refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan (Darfur), and Zimbabwe; taught development skills in India; and carried out disability research in Indonesia.

TorqAid has a network of Global Humanitarian Practitioners (GHP) who hail from New Zealand/Aotearoa, Australia, PNG, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa and Brazil.  Between them they have expertise in humanitarian work with NGOs, UN agencies & church groups; refugees and IDPs; people with disability; and humanitarian/development work in the Pacific and PNG, Australia, South and SE Asia (including both the Himalayan region as well as the Rohingya in Bangladesh and Myanmar), the Middle East, Ukraine, East and Southern Africa, and Latin America.