Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); decades of experience working in the humanitarian sector, including in senior positions at the United Nations Children’s agency (UNICEF), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Environment and Development Action in the Third World (Enda Tiers Monde).