Steve Hansch has worked principally with NGOs during his career. He has conducted field work implementing and developing disaster response programs in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kosovo, Rwanda, Azerbaijan and Somalia, working with NGOs such as the International Rescue Committee, CARE, Partners for Development. Mr. Hansch has been involved in teaching since 1976. Since then he has lectured and taught courses on humanitarian aid and NGO capacity building at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin Madison and American University. He also serves as a SPHERE trainer for NGOs and has taught in the NGO-oriented specialized trainings offered on emergency relief by the International Committee of the Red Cross, USAID's Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (through World Education and Columbia University) and others.