Gianluca has 20 years of experience in humanitarian and development contexts with particular reference to Southern Africa and South East Asia where he worked and lived in various countries. Since 2015 he has been working in the humanitarian sector of Save the Children with a focus on crisis areas of importance for the organization and on the inclusion of policies and operational approaches of the contemporary humanitarian sector. In particular, in recent years he has concentrated his expertise on surge capacity, approaches to crisis prevention, localization and the link between Humanitarian-Development and Peace. In this regard, he participates in the DGCS working table for the definition of guidelines for the application of the Nesso for Italian cooperation