Fred Cuny

Frederick C. Cuny was an American humanitarian whose work spanned disaster relief, refugee emergency management, recovery from war and civil conflict, and peacebuilding. He was a practitioner, author, and a researcher. He has been described as “a great American – a sort of universal Schindler, a man with lists of millions of people in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe whose lives he succored or saved.” Beginning with Biafra and ending in Chechnya, he dedicated his career and his life to safeguarding vulnerable populations from disasters and protecting civilians caught in the maw of war.