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ICRC decision-making structures
01-12-2011
Assembly - Presidency - Assembly Council - Directorate
The Assembly is the supreme governing body of the ICRC. It oversees all the ICRC's activities. It formulates policy, defines general objectives and strategy, and approves the budget and accounts. It nominates the directors and the head of Internal Audit. Composed of between 15 and 25 co-opted members of Swiss nationality, the Assembly is collegial in character. Its President and two Vice-Presidents are the President and Vice-Presidents of the ICRC.
Mr Jakob Kellenberger, president, Doctorate from the University of Zurich, former Swiss Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1999), President since 2000.
Ms Christine Beerli, permanent vice-president, Lawyer, former managing director of the Department of Technique and Information Technology of the Berne University of Applied Sciences, former Senator (Swiss Council of States) (member of the assemby since 2005 and permanent vice-president since 2008).
Mr Olivier Vodoz, vice-president, Bachelor of Laws, barrister, former deputy in the Grand Conseil of Geneva and former president of the Conseil d'État of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. (1998)
Mr Paolo Bernasconi, Bachelor of Laws, barrister, professor of fiscal law and economic criminal law at the Universities of St Gallen, Zurich and Milan (Bocconi), former Public Prosecutor in Lugano. (1987)
Mr Daniel Thürer, Master of Laws (Cambridge), Doctor of Law, professor emeritus of international, comparative constitutional and European Law at the University of Zurich (1991)
Mr André von Moos, Doctor of Laws, Bachelor of Economics, SMP certificate of the Harvard Business School, former chairman of the von Moos Group, industrialist. (1998)
Mr Yves Sandoz, Doctor of Laws, lecturer at the University of Geneva, former Director of International Humanitarian Law and Principles at the ICRC. (2002)
Ms Claude Le Coultre, Professor at the faculty of medicine of the University of Geneva, vice-dean in charge of humanitarian relations and cooperation with the countries of the South and East, Geneva University Hospital delegate for humanitarian affairs. (2004)
Ms Paola Ghillani, Pharmacist from the University of Lausanne, certificate from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, businesswoman, former director general of the Max Havelaar Foundation (Switzerland). (2005)
Ms Christiane Augsburger, Nurse, Bachelor of Education Sciences from the University of Geneva, Master of Health Care from Webster University in Geneva, diploma in the management of nursing schools from the Swiss Red Cross College of Nursing. (2007)
Mr Bernard G. R. Daniel, Bachelor of Laws, IMD Diploma (Lausanne), former Nestlé Secretary-General and previously Secretary to the Board of Directors, former ICRC delegate. (2009)
Mr Rolf Soiron, Doctorate in history, PMD from Harvard Business school, chairman of the boards of Holcim, Lonza and Nobel Biocare, former member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-City. (2009)
Mr Bruno Staffelbach, Professor of Business Administration at the University of Zurich, brigadier-general and former commander of an infantry brigade in the Swiss Army. (2010)
Mr François Bugnion, former director of the ICRC's Department of International Law and Cooperation within the Movement. (2010)
Mr Jürg Kesselring, Head of Department of Neurology & Neurorehabilitation, Rehabilitation Centre, Valens, Switzerland. Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, University of Bern and Center of Neuroscience, University and ETH Zürich. President of the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society. Former Chairman of the International Medical and Scientific Board of Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF) Chairman of the WHO Working Group on Multiple Sclerosis. (2011)
Honorary members: Mr Jean Abt, Mr Peter Arbenz, Professor Jean-Philippe Assal, Professor Jean-François Aubert, Mr Ernst A. Brugger, Ms Susy Brüschweiler, Mr Jean de Courten, Mr Georges-André Cuendet, Mr Max Daetwyler, Mr Josef Feldmann, Mr Jacques Forster, Dr Athos Gallino, Ms Renée Guisan, Dr Rodolphe de Haller, Mr Pierre Keller, Ms Liselotte Kraus-Gurny, Mr Pierre Languetin, Mr Jacques Moreillon, Ms Gabrielle Nanchen, Professor Jakob Nüesch, Professor Anne Petitpierre, Ms Francesca Pometta, Mr Eric Roethlisberger, Professor Dietrich Schindler, Mr Cornelio Sommaruga, Mr Jenö C.A. Staehelin.
The ICRC has a president and two vice-presidents. The president, who bears primary responsibility for the ICRC’s external relations, represents the ICRC on the international scene and, in close cooperation with the directorate general, handles the ICRC’s humanitarian diplomacy. At the internal level, he attends to the cohesion, smooth running and development of the organization.
Mr Jakob Kellenberger, President
Ms Christine Beerli, permanent vice-president
Mr Olivier Vodoz, vice-president
The Assembly Council is a subsidiary body of the Assembly. It prepares the Assembly's activities and takes decisions on matters within its competence, in particular strategic options relating to general policy on funding, personnel and communication. It serves as a link between the Directorate and the Assembly, to which it reports regularly. Composed of five members elected by the Assembly, it is chaired by the president of the ICRC.
Mr Jakob Kellenberger, President
Ms Christine Beerli, permanent vice-president
Ms Claude Le Coultre, member of the Committee
Mr Rolf Soiron, member of the Committee
Mr Bruno Staffelbach, member of the Committee
The Directorate is the executive body of the ICRC, responsible for applying and ensuring application of the general objectives and institutional strategy defined by the Assembly or the Assembly Council. The Directorate is also responsible for the smooth running of the ICRC and for the efficiency of its staff as a whole:
Mr Yves Daccord, Director-General
Mr Pierre Krähenbühl, Director of Operations
Ms Helen Alderson, Director of Financial Resources and Logistics
Ms Charlotte Lindsey-Curtet, Director of Communication and Information Management
Mr Philip Spoerri, Director for International Law and Cooperation
Ms Caroline Welch-Ballentine, Director of Human Resources
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