Mirjana Spoljaric Egger
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger | |
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| President of International Committee of the Red Cross | |
| Assumed office October 2022 | |
| Appointed by | the Assembly of the ICRC |
| Vice President | Gilles Carbonnier |
| Preceded by | Peter Maurer |
| United Nations Assistant Secretary-General | |
| In office August 2018 – September 2022 | |
| Appointed by | António Guterres |
| Succeeded by | Ivana Živković |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Ludbreg, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia[1] |
| Citizenship | Switzerland |
| Alma mater | University of Basel University of Geneva |
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger (Croatian: Špoljarić;[1] born 1972) is a Swiss-Croatian diplomat. Since October 2022, she has served as the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross.[2]
Education
[edit]Egger studied philosophy, economics and international law at the University of Basel and the University of Geneva. She finished her studies with a master's degree. She then worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel. [3]
Career
[edit]Swiss Government
[edit]In 2000, she joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, where she held various positions, including in Bern and New York. From 2004 to 2006, she taught on global governance in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lucerne.[4]
She initially worked at the Swiss Embassy in Cairo and was desk officer for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Nuclear Safety in Central and Eastern Europe.
United Nations
[edit]From 2010 to 2012, Egger was posted to Amman as a senior adviser at the office of the UN Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees and Refugees (UNRWA).[5][6]
From 2012, she was ambassador, head of the Division of United Nations and International Organizations.[7] She represented Switzerland in the negotiations on the UN reforms and the UN budget, in the Security Council, in the General Assembly, in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, in the Commission for Peace Consolidation, in the Human Rights Council and in the UN Office for Drugs and Crime.[8]
From August 2018, Spoljaric served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS. Those positions were succeeded by Ivana Živković from Croatia in September 2022.[9][10]
International Committee of the Red Cross
[edit]In November 2021, the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross elected Spoljaric Egger as President of the Committee with effect from 1 October 2022 in place of Peter Maurer. She is the first woman in this office.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Trkanjec, Željko (23 October 2023). "Nevjerojatna priča žene iz Ludbrega koja je iščupala taokinje iz ruku Hamasa: 'Ovo nam je dalo tračak nade...'". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 14 May 2024.
- ^ a b "ICRC elects new president". International Committee of the Red Cross. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ Monnier, Philippe (28 September 2023). "Luncheon with Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)". Wharton Alumni Club of Switzerland. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ "Mirjana Spoljaric". UNESCO. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Mirjana Spoljaric Egger". International Committee of the Red Cross. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ^ Farge, Emma (14 December 2022). "Red Cross chief: major prisoner swap deal is option in Russia-Ukraine war". Reuters. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Ms. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger of Switzerland - Assistant Administrator, Director of Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | United Nations Secretary-General". United Nations. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ^ "Security Council Report June 2023" (PDF). Security Council Report. 1 June 2023.
- ^ "Mirjana Spoljaric Egger". live.worldbank.org. 12 April 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
- ^ "Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) | United Nations Secretary-General". www.un.org. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
