The IKEA Foundation is increasingly becoming a strong voice urging for greater private sector involvement in humanitarian response and smarter ways of providing support to refugees and those displaced by conflict and disaster. Ahead of a visit to Australia in April for the Asia Pacific Humanitarian Leadership Conference, the foundation's CEO Per Heggenes spoke with Devex on IKEA's role in leading change and support for humanitarian responses.
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Lisa Cornish is a Senior Reporter based in Canberra, where she focuses on the Australian aid community. Lisa formerly worked with News Corp Australia as a data journalist for the national network and was published throughout Australia in major metropolitan and regional newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph in Melbourne, Herald Sun in Melbourne, Courier-Mail in Brisbane, and online through news.com.au. Lisa additionally consults with Australian government providing data analytics, reporting and visualization services. Lisa was awarded the 2014 Journalist of the Year by the New South Wales Institute of Surveyors.