Zoe Young grew up and was educated in London, and has worked both in the UK and abroad for a number of humanitarian organisations including Oxfam, Interact, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She is a Water & Sanitation expert with significant field experience in Rwanda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan and Angola. In 2005, Zoe worked in Uige, Angola following an outbreak of deadly Marburg disease – a haemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. She is currently stationed in the DRC working on the outbreak of Ebola in West Kasai province.