Speech by Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Abstract

Mirjana Spoljaric Egger is President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), commencing in October 2022. Prior to taking up the presidency, from August 2018 Spoljaric served as the United Nations (UN) Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator of the UN Development Programme, and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Spoljaric previously had many years of distinguished service with the Swiss Diplomatic Corps. More recently she served as Ambassador and Head of the United Nations and International Organizations Division of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), where she was instrumental in shaping coherent Swiss policies and priorities in all main UN organs and conferences, represented Switzerland in multilateral processes, and had responsibility for International Geneva and Switzerland’s host country policy.