He is an emergency shelter expert with extensive experience in international development, disaster response and post conflict/disaster rehabilitation. Francisco has worked in East Timor, where he designed and built a network of more than 75 schools, and in Mozambique where he managed a UNESCO World Heritage project. He has managed infrastructure projects in Iraq and spent more than three years as a shelter and construction delegate with the disaster response team at the Australian Red Cross. In this role, he provided technical support to emergency shelter projects in the Pacific and Mozambique and was the shelter cluster coordinator in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan.