Birhane Wossen Reta is an Information and Evidence Officer within ISMS at the IIIM-Syria. She has spent the last fifteen years working with the UN in the field of information management and has held positions with the United Nations Mission in Liberia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. She has an undergraduate degree from Addis Ababa University and a graduate certificate from the University of Leicester. She currently serves as a project lead on data protection strategy and implementation at the IIIM.