Team coordinator at Crash and Director of Studies

Marion has over twenty years of experience and reflection on humanitarian action. She is currently Director of Studies and Team Coordinator at Crash. Initially working as a practitioner with the NGO Solidarités International in various countries in Africa and Asia, Marion then spent several years in academia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for a PhD and taught at other institutions (Sciences Po Paris and Manchester University in particular). She was a member of the ALIMA board from 2018 to 2021. Her research has focused on the sorting logic of humanitarian NGOs, the history of ALIMA and “African doctors,” and the managerial logics at MSF in particular. Recently, Marion was head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in Malawi from 2020 to 2023 before returning to Crash. She is a graduate of ESCP Business School (2004) and Kings College London with a Master's degree in War Studies, and has a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London.

Medical doctor, specialized in tropical medicine, emergency medicine and epidemiology. In 1989 he went on mission with Médecins sans Frontières for the first time, and undertook long-term missions in Uganda, Somalia and Thailand. He returned to the Paris headquarters in 1994 as a programs director. Between 1996 and 1998, he served as the director of communications, and later as director of operations until May 2000 when he was elected president of the French section of Médecins sans Frontières. He was re-elected in May 2003 and in May 2006. From 2000 to 2008, he was a member of the International Council of MSF and a member of the Board of MSF USA. He is the co-editor of "Medical innovations in humanitarian situations" (MSF, 2009) and Humanitarian Aid, Genocide and Mass Killings: Médecins Sans Frontiéres, The Rwandan Experience, 1982–97 (Manchester University Press, 2017).

Medical doctor, specialized in tropical medicine and epidemiology. Involved in humanitarian action since 1977, he has been on numerous missions, mainly in contexts of armed conflicts and IDP situations. President of Médecins sans Frontières from 1982 to1994, he has taught at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester (UK) and at Sciences Po Paris. He has published several books and articles, including "Guerre humanitaires ? Mensonges et Intox" (Textuel, 2018), "La Médecine Humanitaire" (PUF, 2010), "Penser dans l'urgence" (Editions du Seuil, 2006) and "Utopies Sanitaires" (Editions Le Pommier, 2000).

A graduate of the École normale supérieure de Cachan and the EHESP School of Public Health, and a trained hospital director, Anneliese had her first humanitarian field experience with Médecins du Monde in 2010. Since then, she has alternated between field assignments with Médecins du Monde and Médecins Sans Frontières, and positions in France within the public hospital system, nursing homes, and the French Development Agency (AFD). She joined CRASH in 2025 as a Studies Manager. In this role, she helps organize critical reflection training sessions on MSF operations and leads a research project on staff turnover within the organization.

Xavier Plaisancie is the Director of Studies at the CRASH. He is a medical doctor specialized in tropical medicine and holds a degree in medical anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). He began working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2016 on improving access to HIV care for men in Homa Bay, Kenya. In 2019, he served as a palliative care physician in Mali and conducted research on the experiences of women affected by breast and cervical cancer. He later worked in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, as a physician in a ward dedicated to patients living with advanced HIV/AIDS. In 2023, he carried out research on palliative care practices within an MSF cancer care project in Malawi. His research interests include humanitarian medicine, palliative care, and person-centered care in crisis settings.

Since April 2018, Elba has been in charge of dissemination at CRASH. Elba holds a Master's degree in History of Classical Philosophy and a Master's degree in editorial consulting and digital knowledge management. During her studies, she worked on moral philosophy issues and was particularly interested in the practical necessity and the moral, legal and political prohibition of lying in Kant's philosophy.

Francesco joined MSF in 2012, following a degree in international economics and a master’s degree in journalism, as well as fifteen years in the private sector and the media. He undertook his first mission in Port-au-Prince, in the aftermath of the earthquake, and continued his work with the organisation through several missions in conflict zones, notably in Nigeria, Syria, the north of Yemen and Mosul, Iraq. In early 2018, he led MSF France’s intervention in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, before coordinating the response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Peru. Within MSF, he successively held the roles of finance and human resources coordinator as well as financial controller within an operational unit, before returning to the field as project coordinator and head of mission. In 2018, he joined the communications team at the Paris headquarters. He is currently Head of Studies at the CRASH.

Graduated in International relations (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris), Logistics in humanitarian settings (Bioforce-Développement) and Anthropology (University Paris I), Judith Soussan joined MSF in 1999. After missions in Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Sudan and the Palestinian territories, she worked in Paris, in particular on protection of civilians. Following a few years break from MSF working as a radio reporter, she has come back to Crash in 2015. She contributed to the book "Saving lives and staying alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" (chapter "Security Issues and Practices in an MSF Mission in the Land of Jihad" - London: Hurst and Co, 2016).

A political scientist by training, Fabrice Weissman joined Médecins sans Frontières in 1995. First as a logistician, then as project coordinator and head of mission, he has worked in many countries in conflict (Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, etc.) and more recently in Malawi in response to natural disasters. He is the author of several articles and collective works on humanitarian action, including "In the Shadow of Just Wars. Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action" (ed., London, Hurst & Co., 2004), "Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed. The MSF Experience" (ed., Oxford University Press, 2011) and "Saving Lives and Staying Alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" (ed., London, Hurst & Co, 2016). He is also one of the main hosts of the podcast La zone critique.