Joseph Ashmore is the Head of the Humanitarian Preparedness and Response Coordination Support Unit at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Migration Agency, in Washington DC. Over the past 22 years Joseph has worked leading teams in global operations, humanitarian shelter and settlements, with the UN, NGOs and Civil Protection organizations. He has deployed into more than 40 crisis and consulted for 13 different international organizations.

Joseph became interested in shelter and settlements whilst working as a researcher on visualization in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge UK. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at UCL, UK and holds a masters in International Negotiation and Policy at the Geneva Graduate Institute.