Roger Ricafort is currently the Director for International Programmes in Oxfam Hong Kong. 

He started his involvement in development work organising credit and consumer cooperatives among university students and urban poor in the Philippines.  Thereafter, he worked on industrial research, community-based disaster management/disaster risk reduction, agricultural development programmes, participatory development, organizational and management development, strategy development, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and learning and accountability. His involvement included direct community work in peasant and fisher communities, involvement in national civil society organizations, management consultancy, organization of international and south-south exchanges on participatory development, and work with international development organizations.
He has a background in chemistry, philosophy and public policy and management