Hannah de Ville

Hannah de Ville is a seasoned international development professional, with over two decades of dedicated service in various INGOs across Africa and Asia. Since September 2017, she has been serving as a Senior Program Manager at the Freedom Fund in London. Over the years, Hannah managed a variety of Freedom Fund hotspot programs, including in Nepal, northern India, Myanmar, Liberia and Nigeria. She is now the organsational lead for programmatic systems and processes, ensuring effective and efficient grant-making while keeping our CSO partners at the centre of it all.

Before joining the Freedom Fund, Hannah held program management and advisory roles with organisations like Plan International, Mercy Corps, International Alert and Human Rights Watch, amongst others. Her expertise encompasses programme design and management of programs focusing on civil society capacity building, good governance, gender, peacebuilding, and child protection. Hannah’s varied experience reflects her commitment to creating impactful change in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

Hannah has a master’s degree in human security and conflict resolution from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree in international politics from Barnard College at Columbia University.