Yves Daccord, Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Yves Daccord, born in 1964, holds a B.A. in political science. A former journalist, he joined the ICRC in 1992 and worked in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories, Sudan, Yemen, the northern Caucasus and Georgia. He returned to ICRC headquarters in 1997 to take up the post of deputy head of the Division for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law. In 1998 he was appointed head of the Communication Division and then director of Communication in 2002, a post he held until his appointment as director-general in 2010.

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Yves Daccord, Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, 19 August 2015 - Humanitarian

...the long term. This support has been in areas such as education and health and has helped build the resilience of people to better withstand crises. But when crises do...

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