Yves Daccord
Fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society and journalist · Switzerland · On the map · Journalists · Born 1964 · age 62
Yves Daccord, is a humanitarian leader, international strategist, influencer and changemaker. From 2010 - March 2020, Yves was Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a global humanitarian organization employing 20,000 staff.
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A former journalist, TV producer and international relations expert, his ICRC career spanned more than two decades in a variety of posts and challenging contexts - including Israel and the Occupied Territories, Sudan, Yemen, Chechnya and Georgia. Daccord currently leads the Edgelands Institute, Harvard University’s first-ever Pop-Up Institute. He also leads the #Principles4Peace initiative to reshape peace processes around the world and chairs the Board of the International Human Rights Film Festival of Geneva.
