Cyril Bennouna is a senior research associate at the CPC Learning Network at Columbia University, where his research focuses on collaborations between governments, civil society, and international actors to address the needs of people affected by conflict and natural disaster. Previously, he was the technical lead for research at the Center on Child Protection and Wellbeing (PUSKAPA) at the University of Indonesia. Cyril has served as a researcher for the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity, and the International Trauma Studies Program. Currently based in Massachusetts, he has conducted field work in various parts of the United States, as well as Indonesia, Somalia, Ghana, Thailand, Haiti, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has a master's in Public Health from Columbia University with a focus on forced migration and humanitarian assistance.