Joined the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2013 after serving in the United Kingdom government as a Member of Parliament from 2001-13 and as the 74th Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 2007-10. Since joining the IRC, has expanded IRC’s humanitarian response efforts into more than 40 war-affected countries. Notably, has helped IRC lead the way in building innovative and creative public and private partnerships to further its humanitarian response work. Most recently, the IRC, in partnership with Sesame Street, won the 100&Change McArthur Foundation grant to launch a new Arabic-Language Sesame Street with the aim to provide refugee children with early childhood education materials. Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Humanitarian System.
The humanitarian world finds itself at a crossroads, navigating an era marked by increasing civil wars, a growing number of refugees, and a surge in protracted crises and complex emergenc...
Nothing could be further from the convening of global political, financial and business leaders at Davos 2024, this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, than ...
Cada año, durante la última década, los equipos de respuesta a crisis del Comité Internacional de Rescate (IRC) analizan gran cantidad de datos cuantitativos y cualitativos para descubrir...
Every year for the past decade, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) crisis response teams analyze swathes of quantitative and qualitative data to uncover the countries most at risk...
This week government, business and civil society leaders from around the world will make their annual trek to the small Alpine town of Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s An...
In 2015 the refugee crisis exploded on the global scene. The year 2016 proved that it is not going away. Now 2017 presents a moment of choice.
By the end of this year's Annual Meeting in Davos, we can expect more than 10,000 refugees to have arrived on the shores of Europe. And this is the so-called “quiet season”. By spring, th...
