Rachel has worked for Oxfam GB for 16 years in field and headquarter posts implementing and supporting humanitarian programmes. Since 2006 she has been the Global Protection Adviser leading Oxfam's programme strategy for protection work.

Specific areas of interest are civilian protection, gender and conflict, preventing and responding to sexual violence, safer livelihoods in conflict and supporting durable solutions to displacement. Rachel also sits of the Editorial Advisory Board of Forced Migration Review.