Executive Producer - Brendan Cahill

Brendan Cahill

Brendan Cahill is the Executive Director of the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) at Fordham University and leads its outreach, academic programs, research, and publications. For over twenty-three years he has created, directed and taught in humanitarian programs throughout the world, including South Africa, Jordan, Kenya, India, Egypt, Myanmar, Kuala Lumpur, South Korea, Nepal, Sudan, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, England and the United States. He established one of the first Masters programs in Humanitarian Action in the world, and, to date, has trained nearly 4,000 aid professionals from over 140 countries. He designed and implemented a full undergraduate Humanitarian Studies program at Fordham University. He created a new Master of Science in Humanitarian Studies program in New York, an online Master of Arts in International Humanitarian Action and an undergraduate Minor in Community and Global Public Health.  

The Institute, which he helped create, acts as a bridge between the University and humanitarian practice, and hosts lectures and symposia on a regular basis. Due to the work of the Institute, Fordham University is the US partner for NOHA, a consortium of 12 European universities offering humanitarian education. Mr. Cahill has also served on the editorial board of their academic journal. Mr. Cahill is the Publisher of The Refuge Press, an imprint of Fordham University Press. He is currently co-authoring a textbook in Humanitarian Studies, to be published by University of Toronto Press. He is the Executive Producer of Humanitarian Fault Lines, the Institute’s first podcast. His research includes the intersection of Design and the Humanitarian Sector, and Food Insecurity and Conflict. He received his BA from Colby College and his IDHA and MBA from Fordham University.

Besides his work for the IIHA, he is the President of the CIHC, an independent humanitarian NGO. He is a Trustee of The Helen Hamlyn Trust in London, a Director of the KMC Foundation in New York, a member of the Advisory Board of The Humanitarian Centre of University College Dublin. He is the President of the Point Lookout Historical Society and the Secretary of the Point Lookout Civic Association.

He is married with four children and lives in Point Lookout, New York.