Pierre Kraehenbuehl

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Pierre Kraehenbuehl has been the Director of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross since 1 July 2002 and personal adviser to President Jakob Kellenberger since 2000. Born in 1966, he received a B.A. in political science and international relations. He joined the ICRC in 1991 and worked in El Salvador, Peru, Afghanistan, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. [1] He has also assumed many of the responsibilities of Director-General Angelo Gnaedinger, ever since illness began to limit the former's activity in 2004.[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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