Lola Cecchinel is a Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning professional with experience managing and advising programmes operating in conflict-affected environments. She worked five years for a consulting company across Afghanistan and West Africa and then joined the UK Government’s Stabilisation Unit as a Deployable Civilian Expert in late 2017. She has provided long-term advisory and training to multiple CSSF programmes including on migration, serious and organised crime and governance. She was appointed by the UNHCR as a judge-assessor at the French National Court of Asylum in Paris in early 2020 and was elected as a council member in her city the same year.