Bridget Tehan
About
Bridget Tehan is Senior Advisor – Humanitarian Diplomacy at Australian Red Cross, working to provide advocacy, sector convening, and thought leadership. Bridget has more than 15 years’ experience in emergency management and disaster resilience policy and practice. She has significant expertise in community resilience, including in strengths, needs and priorities of people who may be vulnerable or disadvantaged before, during and after emergencies as well as their needs in the mitigation, transition and adaptation to climate change. Bridget also has expertise in the role of community, social service and not-for-profit organisations in emergency management and disaster resilience at local, grassroots and strategic levels.
Bridget is also co-founder and President of the Australasian Women in Emergencies Network which works to promote, support and recognise the contributions of women to emergencies and disaster resilience.