Studies in history and international law, Berne; PhD. 1987, entered the Swiss diplomatic service; held various positions, Berne and Pretoria; 1996, transferred to New York as Deputy Permanent Observer, Swiss Mission to the United Nations; 2000, Ambassador and head of the human security division, political directorate, Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, Berne; 2004, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations, New York; worked to integrate Switzerland into multilateral networks; June 2009, elected Chairman of the Fifth Committee by the UN General Assembly, in charge of administrative and budgetary affairs; elected Chairman of the Burundi configuration of the UN Peacebuilding Commission; Jan. 2010, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Berne and took over the reins of the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs. From 2012 to 2022 President of ICRC. Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum. Today: President of Basel Institute on Governance, various Board Memberships and Co-Chair of the Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative.
With humanitarian crises happening ever more frequently and growing in scale, technological advances have the power to transform aid, says Peter Maurer, head of the ICRC in this interview.
The World Humanitarian Summit is a prime opportunity for the private sector to help develop innovative solutions to immense humanitarian challenges.
Businesses have a role to play in helping fragile communities recover, says Peter Maurer of the ICRC.
We need to end the ‘truck and chuck’ myth of humanitarian work.
For centuries, wars were predominantly fought across vast battlefields. Now, they're being fought in cities.
