Sasha Chanoff

Sasha Chanoff is the Founder and CEO of RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions and transforms how the world supports them. Since founding RefugePoint in 2005, Chanoff has helped more than 180,000 refugees access resettlement and pathways to safety across 442 locations in 83 countries throughout Africa, Central America, South America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Through RefugePoint's Urban Refugee Protection Program in Nairobi, Kenya, the organization has served over 8,300 refugees, with 60% achieving self-reliance. In 2018, Chanoff co-launched the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative with the Women's Refugee Commission, a transformative program that has reached more than 2 million refugees with self-reliance programming. As a visionary social entrepreneur, he has strengthened refugee resettlement alliances with the U.N. Refugee Agency, NGO partners, and governments, while influencing global refugee policy and practice.

Prior to founding RefugePoint, Chanoff worked with the International Organization for Migration conducting emergency evacuations for Congolese refugees and organizing resettlement efforts for Somali and Sudanese refugees. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a master's in Humanitarian Assistance from Tufts University's Fletcher School. His exceptional work has earned him the Charles Bronfman Prize, fellowships from Ashoka and Echoing Green, the 2013 Gleitsman International Activist Award from Harvard's Kennedy School, and the 2018 Social Entrepreneur Award from The Schwab Foundation. RefugePoint has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN, BBC, and in The New York Times. Chanoff collaborated on the Warner Bros. film The Good Lie and created The Good Lie Fund to support Sudanese refugees. His 2016 book From Crisis to Calling explores moral decision-making in humanitarian work.