Roberto Vila-Sexto

Co-founder and Executive Director Housing Institute

Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

About

Experience

  • Co-founder and Executive Director at Housing Institute
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Organisational resilience. International joint ventures advisor.

  • Country Director at Norwegian Refugee Council
    Jul 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Led the largest programme and scale-up in NRC's history.

  • Senior management support (Surge Capacity Roster) at Norwegian Refugee Council
    Jul 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Country Director, December-March 2022, Bangladesh. Head of Programme, May-August 2021, Colombia. Country Director, February-April 2021, Venezuela. Country Director/ Change Manager, October 2020-January 2021, North of Central America and Mexico. Head of Operations, July-September 2020, Cameroun.

  • Head of Programme a.i. at Norwegian Refugee Council
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos

    Quality control of existing grants. Resource mobilisation. Main donors: NMFA, OFDA, ECHO, SIDA, Equinor, GAC

  • Head of Operations/ Head of Support/ Change Manager a.i. at Norwegian Refugee Council
    Dec 2018 - Apr 2019 · 5 mos

    Transition of NRC’s Area Office in Damascus into a stand-alone Country Office. Review and upgrade of the country programme’s policies and standard operating procedures. Main donors: NMFA, ECHO, DEVCO, SDC, UNDP