Peter Ventevogel

Peter Ventevogel is a psychiatrist and a medical anthropologist. He did medical anthropological fieldwork in Ghana in 1990/91 and subsequently specialized in psychiatry at the University of Amsterdam. He worked with the Dutch NGO HealthNet TPO in Afghanistan (2002-2005), Burundi (2005-2008) and Amsterdam (2008-2011).

Since October 2013 he is the Senior Mental Health Expert at the UNHCR headoffice in Geneva.

Previously he has done several short-term consultancies on mental health for UN organisations such as the World Health Organization and UNHCR (in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Libya and Sudan) and for various nongovernmental organisations in Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, DRC, Egypt and Afghanistan.

From 2008-2013 he was the editor-in-chief of Intervention, the International Journal for Mental Health, Psychosocial Work and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict, published by the War Trauma Foundation in the Netherlands. Since 2012 he is member of the Board of the Section for Transcultural Psychiatry of the Netherlands Association for Psychiatry (NVvP).