The Forum's Management team
Executive leadership
The Forum's Secretariat is headed by Walter Fust.
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Ambassador Walter Fust joined the Forum as its CEO in May 2008 following 15 years as the Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC). Fust is chairman of UNESCO’s International Program for Development of Communication (IPDC) and President of Globalethics.net. He serves as member of the International Forum of Federations (Ottawa), a global network on federalism, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the new library of Alexandria/Egypt. He is also a member of the Board of the International Risk Governance Council/Geneva and serves as a board member on different philanthropic foundations.
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Martin Frick is the Deputy CEO / Director of the Global Humanitarian Forum. A long-term German diplomat prior to joining the Forum in October 2007, Dr Frick served as the German Deputy Ambassador in Albania from 2001-2002. From 2002-2005 Dr Frick was the Cabinet Affairs Advisor to the German Federal Foreign Minister. He has since been the responsible German representative on the NGO committee of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the UN Democracy Fund Board, for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and for human rights resolutions of the UN Security Council.
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