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Jacques Forster
Vice-President, Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies, Geneva; Vice-President,
International Committee of the Red Cross (1999–2007)

Jacques Forster is currently Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and honorary Professor of the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), Geneva. Mr. Forster was Director of IUED from 1980 to 1992 and serves as a member of the ICRC since 1988. He has recently been appointed Vice-President of the Foundation Board of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, which merges the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) and IUED.

Mr. Forster has worked for the Swiss Government as a civil servant and consultant on a range of programmes in the field of international development cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia.

Mr. Forster holds a PhD from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and has published extensively on international development cooperation and humanitarian issues. (P.Ress)