Studies in history and international law, Berne; PhD. 1987, entered the Swiss diplomatic service; held various positions, Berne and Pretoria; 1996, transferred to New York as Deputy Permanent Observer, Swiss Mission to the United Nations; 2000, Ambassador and head of the human security division, political directorate, Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, Berne; 2004, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, New York; worked to integrate Switzerland into multilateral networks; June 2009, elected Chairman of the Fifth Committee by the UN General Assembly, in charge of administrative and budgetary affairs; elected Chairman of the Burundi configuration of the UN Peacebuilding Commission; Jan. 2010, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Berne and took over the reins of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs. From 2012 to 2022 President of ICRC. Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum. Today: President of Basel Institute on Governance, various Board Memberships and Co-Chair of the Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative.
Since becoming President of the ICRC in 2012, I've visited several countries affected by different socioeconomic challenges. One observation stands out as particularly important and count...
カブール空港に群がる絶望にさいなまれたアフガニスタンの人々の写真が世界のトップニュースを独占した直後の9月、同国の地方部を訪れた私は、掘り起こされたばかりの墓場や破壊された家が散乱している風景を目にしました。世界は今、数えきれないほどのアフガニスタン人が冬の寒さと飢えに苦しんでいることを認識しています。
Freshly dug graveyards and destroyed homes littered the landscape as I travelled through the Afghan countryside last September, shortly after pictures of desperate Afghans swarming Kabul’...
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens already fragile social and economic systems and could potentially impact the lives of up to 2 billion people. Based on estimates by the World Bank, it woul...
If the first casualty in war is truth, as the saying goes, the second may very well be something the entire world values highly right now: quality healthcare.
Cet article fait partie de la Réunion Annuelle du Forum Économique Mondial
The world’s millennials see catastrophic war on the horizon, including the real likelihood of a nuclear strike.
この記事は世界経済フォーラムの年次総会の一部です。
In Timbuktu, Mali this month I met with families without food whose crops have failed and whose children have been killed by improvised explosive devices (IED). I couldn’t help but be mov...
L’humanité est confrontée à une nouvelle réalité grave : l’existence d’un nombre croissant d’armes autonomes. Cela peut sembler être un scénario hollywoodien, mais le risque est réel : le...
Humanity is faced with a grave new reality – the rise of autonomous weapons. It may sound like a Hollywood script, but the risk is real: humans so far removed from wartime choices that li...
2018年是叙利亚发生战争以来的第7年，索马里、南苏丹和也门人民继续受到饥饿与疾病的困扰。在利比亚，人们为了避免落入冲突与不幸，不得不满世界逃难；在中非共和国，人们在月初就开始受到冲突与暴力带来的长短期影响。
Syria enters its seventh year of fighting in 2018. Hunger and disease will affect millions of people in Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Around the world people will flee conflict only to ...
What is the current state of play and the strategic lines of thinking in the humanitarian system? What are the technologies that will play a role in the humanitarian system in the next 10...
Ahmad was five years old, playing in his garden in Idlib, Syria, when the unimaginable happened: a mortar landed on his house. Thankfully Ahmad survived the blast, but lost both his legs....
