Jan Weuts is the Humanitarian Advisor of Caritas International Belgium, overseeing worldwide disaster response of the Caritas network, and he represents Caritas Internationalis in the Sphere Board. Since 2009 he lectures on Humanitarian Management in the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve and in the NOHA Fall/Spring schools and Intensive Programs. Before joining Caritas, he worked 15 years for MSF-Belgium from 1990 till 2005, and remained an MSF-B Board member from 2006 till 2016.
His experience covers technical aspects of humanitarian action (WASH, Food, Nutrition, Health, Shelter, Protection), support aspects (management, logistics, security), policy aspects (civil military, principled humanitarian action…) and contextual analysis, built upon his work with two important actors in humanitarian assistance: the faith-based, multi-mandated, and partnership oriented Caritas, and the hard-core humanitarian Médecins Sans Frontières.