Vickie Hawkins is the Executive Director of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) UK.  She started in her current role as Executive Director of MSF UK in 2014 and has now worked for MSF for nearly 23 years. As an International Relations student she developed a strong interest in what non-governmental organisations could achieve for vulnerable populations that had been neglected or worse by the governments and political systems that bore responsibility for them.

After starting her career with Oxfam she applied to join MSF and was accepted as a Financial Coordinator for China with MSF. She went on to take a variety of roles, such as Project Coordinator, and Head of Mission in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe.  She became Head of the Programmes Unit at MSF UK in 2005, leaving for the field again in 2011 as Deputy Head of Mission in Myanmar, before returning to the UK once again to take on her current role.