Scott Dehnisch is the Wildfire Response Coordinator for U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), the United States’ lead government agency for international disaster response. In this role, Dehnisch manages BHA’s wildfire and post-wildfire responses to support the Bureau’s three geographic offices: the Office of Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; the Office of Asia, Latin America, and Latin America the Caribbean; and the Office of Africa. He first came to USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) on a temporary assignment in 2005 while in the middle of a 20-year firefighting career with the United States Forest Service's Fire and Aviation Management. In 2014, Dehnisch traded his domestic firefighting role for an international one, permanently joining USAID/OFDA (now BHA) through the Forest Service’s Disaster Assistance Support Program. He has coordinated and led USAID wildfire and post-wildfire responses to Indonesia, Israel, Paraguay, Portugal, Greece, Türkiye, Russia, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil, among others. Dehnisch also supports other USAID disaster responses as a deputy manager for Operations and Deputy Leader for Operations, having last managed operations for the U.S. Government’s humanitarian response to Ukraine.