Antonio Ribeiro, better known as Tony to Creative, is the Director of Global Security Operations that forms part of our larger Creative HQ Security department.
As part of our HQ support element to the field, he plays a role in supporting a wide area inclusive of security, opérations, logistics, capture, business development and other areas to ensure a diverse skillset is made available to the field and our project as and when needed. Tony started out his international development journey when he got involved in Afghanistan in during 2004 to support the first elections there. He then moved into the broader humanitarian field with the UN (UNOPS and UNDP) and eventually was recruited by Creative Associates in 2012 to support various project in Afghanistan. He remained in Kabul (2004-2015) before eventually joining the HQ Security department in Washington, D.C., to support our field projects with our security approach for effective deployment in high risk and non permissive environments as the Director for Global Security Operations.
Tony’s ability to support across a wide spectrum of areas/services inclusive of security, operations and logistics and programming stems from a combined time in the field and corporate environments creating a perspective to enable rather than to restrict our efforts in, most often, very difficult environments. His experience stems from being posted in East and West Africa, North Africa and the Middle East and Asia.