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The Board normally meets four times a year. It sets the mission and the general policy of the Foundation and provides overall supervision of its Management and Administration.

  • * Board - Role & Mission

    The Board normally meets four times a year. It sets the mission and the general policy of the Foundation and provides overall supervision of its Management and Administration.

  • Aaronson, Michael (Sir) - Chairman of the Board
    Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue since 2001. Director General, Save the Children UK, 1995-2005; Overseas Director, Save the Children UK, 1988-1995; HM Diplomatic Service, 1972-1988; Civil Service Commissioner since 2007; Director, Oxford Policy Management, since 2006; Chairman, Frimley Park Hospital since 2006; Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, since 2004; Governor, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, 2001-2007; President, EC/NGO Liaison Committee, 1996-1998.
  • Brugger, Ernst A. - Board Member
    President, BHP - Brugger and Partners Ltd.; Honorary member of the "International Committee of the Red Cross" (ICRC); Professor, University of Zurich; Chairman of the board of directors of SV Group, Zurich, the Sustainable Performance Group, Zurich, and BlueOrchard Finance SA, Geneva, as well as member of the board of directors of other sustainability oriented organizations.
  • Escaler, Narcisa - Vice Chair of the Board
    Deputy Director General of the International Organisation for Migration (OIM) in Geneva, 1994-1999; Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in New York, 1992-1994; Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva, 1989-1992
  • Jestin, Karin - Board Member and Audit and Finance Committee member
    Director, Foundation Strategy Group; former Senior Adviser, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
  • Lombard, Thierry - Board Member and Audit & Finance Committee Member
    Senior Partner, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie; Former Chairman, Geneva Financial Centre Foundation; Chairman and member of several humanitarian, charitable and business boards and foundations
  • Staehelin, Jenö C. A. (Amb.) - Board Member

    Head of Europe and North America Division, Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1986-93); Ambassador to Japan (1993-97), and to the United Nations in New York (1997-2004); Chairman of the Board of UNICEF (2003); Member of the 'International Committee of the Red Cross' (ICRC) (1996-); Member of the Board of Schindler Holding AG (1980-).

  • Walzer, Gerald - Board Member and Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committee
    Former Deputy High Commissioner, United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

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