Lotte Ruppert

Lotte Ruppert has worked as a delegate with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 2017. As a certified Head of Emergency Operations, she brings strategic and operational leadership in the immediate aftermath of large-scale emergencies. She has coordinated responses to humanitarian crises such as the escalation of hostilities in Lebanon in 2024 and the 2023 earthquake in Türkiye. Beyond emergency deployments, Lotte has also managed long-term IFRC programs supported by key humanitarian donors, including DG ECHO. She is especially committed to expanding cash assistance as a way to put power directly in the hands of people affected by crises. 

From 2015 to 2017, Lotte was a research associate with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, contributing to the institute’s work on humanitarian action and monitoring and evaluation. She supported policy development for the European Union’s humanitarian aid department (DG ECHO) with the INSPIRE consortium and worked on the independent Grand Bargain report. She was also part of the three-year research project Secure Access in Volatile Environments (SAVE), investigating how aid agencies can strengthen accountability to affected populations in conflict settings.

In 2015, Lotte graduated with distinction from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s course in ​“Global Studies – A European Perspective.” For the first year of the program, she studied at the University of Roskilde in Denmark and completed her studies at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Lotte holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Amsterdam and spent an exchange semester at the University of Melbourne.