Michel Gonzalez Brun is a safety and security coordinator at Open Briefing. He has a strong learning and development background, and had previously worked in education on long-term development programmes in Chile, Portugal, Syria, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Venezuela. He moved into the humanitarian sector in 2016, and was the security training coordinator at RedR UK for nearly two years. Since then, he has provided security risk management support to LGBT+ activists, human rights defenders, and humanitarian aid workers in Ethiopia, Liberia, Mauritius, Namibia, Sudan, Uganda, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, France, and Greece. Michel has a master’s degree in international development and education from the UCL Institute of Education. He is fluent in English and Spanish.