Gunaretnam Sivashanker

A civil engineer with twelve years of extensive experience in Humanitarian emergency response including 05 years of experience in the warehouse management and development field being worked in IOM, UN agencies, INGOs, and Government of emergency response, high emergency L3 & L2 missions, transitional and early recovery phases with international experiences. I have proven experience in immigration and resettlement in emergency response, war victims, and early recovery projects. Broad knowledge and experience in movement coordination, receiving/tracking refugees, and immigration coordination with government stakeholders.

• Site Development Operations Officer: Rohingya Humanitarian Crises Response Program, from 09th Januanty,2018 – 09th of November 2022 at UNITED NATIONS-IOM in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
• Reconstruction Engineer(P2): Typhoon Maysak Response Program (USAID funded), from October 2017 – December,2018 at UNITED NATIONS IOM,Chuuk State, Micronesia.
• Project Engineer: Infrastructure Projects, from December,2016 to July,2017 Eastwest Maldives pvt ltd, Maldives.
• Project Engineer: Infrastructure Projects, from January,2016 to Nov,2016 Nadaa Civil Engineering pvt ltd, Sri Lanka.
• Technical Field Coordinator: Community and Livelihood Development (CLD) Project, from January 2012 – December 2015 at IOM, Sri Lanka

• Completed degree in Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering at Open University, Sri Lanka.
• Completed EDEXEL BTEC HND in Quantity surveying at British college of Applied studies, Sri Lanka.
• Passed General Certificate and Advanced level in Education at St. Michael’s College, National School, Sri Lanka.