Speakers

Luca is an Advanced Paramedic Practitioner currently working as Head of International Development at Gibb Medical and Rescue, leading on advanced first aid provisions in the renewable energy sector globally.

Luca is a Fellow of Extreme Wilderness Medicine (FEWM), a Fellow of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Health Care (FRRHH),  Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS), Wilderness Expedition Medicine Faculty Member, ALS, EPALS, MIMMS and PHTLS instructor, Mountain Leader, Water Rescue Technician and an Off Shore Medic.

Luca is also a HEFAT instructor, delivering hostile environment training to journalists both in the UK, before deployment and in-country, during deployment.

In 2012 he won Wanderlust Expedition Leader of the Year Award and was awarded a bursary. Luca then used this to set up a sustainable, income-generating, community project in Antigua, Guatemala to support women and their children who have been victims of domestic abuse. This project continues to run to this day and was the start of things to come.

Luca founded Medics4Ukraine (M4U) with Mark Hannaford in early 2022 and ran it as the Head of Operations until it was renamed the World Extreme Medicine Fund (WEMF) in September 2024.