Mario Di Gennaro is Director of the Johanniter EU Competence Centre for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance in Germany since 2020. Prior to this, he worked for 30 years for the Red Cross and the ICRC. In the last four years at Johanniter, he has significantly expanded the department and projects such as EU MODEX, KnowEMS with DG ECHO or AGILE in Horizon Europe are coordinated in the department.