Author
Antoine Gérard
Antoine Gérard is the Chief of the World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat. Prior to his current post, Mr. Gérard served as the Chief of the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In the same office he held the position of Deputy Director of the Coordination and Response Division. He was the Head of OCHA’s Liaison Office to the EU and NATO in Brussels, influencing policy and decision-making related to humanitarian affairs. Mr. Gérard has a long history of humanitarian work in crises around the globe. From June 2006 to April 2009, he was OCHA Darfur Coordination Manager. Prior to this post in Sudan, he was the Head of OCHA in Burundi and Senegal and the Senior Humanitarian Adviser in Zimbabwe. From 1996 to 2002, he was the Advocacy Director for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), based in New York, liaising with the United Nations Secretariat and US Administration and Congress. He also headed Missions for MSF in several countries, including Sudan, Yemen, and the occupied Palestinian territory between 1993 and 1996. Mr. Gérard holds an advanced degree in Arabic Language and Middle-Eastern studies from the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales - Paris) and Sorbonne University degree in French Comparative Literature.
