Angelo Gnaedinger

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Angelo Gnaedinger has been the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross since 1 July 2002. He was born in 1951, trained to become a lawyer, and served as magistrate of Schaffhausen. He joined the ICRC in 1984 and worked in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe before assuming the directorship.[1] Illness has limited his activity since 2004, and Director of Operations Pierre Kraehenbuehl has assumed many of his responsibilities. [2]

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  1. ^ ICRC Directorate. ICRC website. 7 May 2005.
  2. ^ David P Forsythe. The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross. New York: Cambridge, 2005. 227.
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