Dr. Alison Thompson is a global humanitarian volunteer running large refugee camps, field hospitals, and

resilience hubs in natural and man-made disasters worldwide for the past 25 years (including the Syrian, Afghan, Venezuelan, and Ukraine refugee crises.) Thompson's full-time work started as a first responder at the Sept 11th, 2001 attacks in New York for nine months.

She holds a Doctorate of Letters in the Humanities and is a rescue paramedic and Mass Incident Commander.

In 2022, Thompson was awarded "The Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award "from President Biden, in 2010, the 'Order of Australia" from Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, and in 2012, she was appointed the first official Ambassador to the Haitian Ministry of Environment, focusing on reforestation, clean water, and sustainable energy. Thompson represented Haiti at the 2016 COP 22 United Nations Climate Change meetings in Marrakesh, where she later helped Haiti ratify the Paris Agreement in Parliament.

 

From the front lines of the Ukraine war to the Syrian refugee crises, to the earthquakes of Haiti, to creating the first Tsunami Early-warning Center in Sri Lanka, Thompson leads with Love in Action and how in these growing disasters, "Everyone's Needed!"

 

Her award-winning documentary, The Third Wave, chronicles her volunteer experience in Sri Lanka after

the 2004 tsunami and was screened at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival in a presidential jury screening

presented by Sean Penn and Bono.

She followed up with a book by Random House penned- The Third Wave- a volunteer story.

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