Adelina Kamal is an independent analyst with more than 25 years’ experience with ASEAN. She led the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance as its Executive Director during the period of 2017 to 2021, and prior to that, worked with the ASEAN Headquarters in Jakarta for over two decades. Adelina is a passionate advocate for localising humanitarian action and transforming the humanitarian system, locally-led humanitarian resistance in Myanmar, and crisis management leadership in ASEAN. As an independent analyst, Adelina has written and co-authored at least 13 research-based articles and papers on these issues.
 
Adelina is a steering committee member of the Southeast Asian Women Peace Mediators, where she joins seven other prominent women from the region to facilitate efforts aimed at preventing or resolving escalation of violent conflicts in the region and beyond. She has also been consulting for local, regional and international organisations in the areas of disaster management, humanitarian assistance, crisis management, health, and public financing. Adelina serves as a voting member of the Melbourne-based Centre for Humanitarian Leadership Executive Committee, an Advisory Group member of the London-based Overseas Development Institute Humanitarian Policy Group, and an Early Member of the Association of Indonesian Society for Amnesty International.