Chris George

For the past 18 years, Chris George has been the Executive Director of IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services), which is both a national Welcome Corps PSO and Connecticut’s largest refugee resettlement agency. Based in New Haven but working with community groups all over the nation, IRIS has welcomed thousands of refugees and immigrants. Chris was central to IRIS’s commitment to piloting sponsorship models in the U.S.

Prior to leading IRIS, Chris spent most of his professional life living and working in the Middle East, including 12 years in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He served as Chief of Party and in other leadership roles at organizations such as Save the Children and the American Friends Service Committee. Chris negotiated the terms of the first fact-finding missions to Syria and Iran as Executive Director of Human Rights Watch – Middle East. His international career started in 1977 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Muscat, Oman. He speaks Arabic.

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