Rory Logan joined the GICHD in September 2015. As Chief of Operations, he guides and oversees the Centre’s operational engagement worldwide, working with partners to reduce explosive ordnance risks, safely manage ammunition, return land to communities, and build national capacity for lasting impact. Rory has over seventeen years’ experience in mine action and explosive ordnance risk reduction, across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, with a strong track record in managing field operations, building partnerships, and delivering results that turn strategy into impact.
At the Centre, he has also served as Head of Division, supervising cross-cutting areas such as strategic planning, results-based management, monitoring and evaluation, and training. He led the scale-up of GICHD operations in Ukraine after 2022 and established a dedicated Country Programme to further develop and professionalise Ukraine’s national mine-action capacities, enabling the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient mine-action and ammunition-management services.
Previously, he served as Secretary of the International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) Review Board and provided advisory services on a number of key thematic issues in explosive ordnance risk reduction.
Before joining the GICHD, Rory managed mine-action and weapons- and-ammunition-management operations in South Sudan and Lebanon for NPA (2013–2015), and in Somalia (Somaliland), Mozambique, Cambodia, Georgia, and Angola for HALO Trust (2008–2013).
He holds an MA in Peacebuilding from Coventry University and a BA (Hons) in Geography from the University of Manchester.
- Organisation Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
- Unit Chief of Operations
- Working Languages English