Dor Akech Achiek is the Group Head of Settlement Services at SSI, a community-based, not-for-profit humanitarian organisation providing various human and social services. In his role, Dor provides strategic and operational management of SSI’s Settlement Services across Australia’s eastern seaboard, including overseeing the NSW Settlement Partnership (NSP) consortium of 20 formerly migrant resource centres, ethnospecific organisations and multicultural services.

For the past 15 years, Dor has worked with refugees, humanitarian entrants, and people seeking asylum. Dor is a former refugee from South Sudan who came to Australia in 2003 after nine years of living in the Kakuma refugee camp as a result of war in the then Sudan.

Dor holds a Master’s Degree in International Law and International Relations, a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and International Relations, A Diploma of Community Services Coordination and a Diploma of Children Services.