Biography
Bruno Jochum is the Executive Director and founder of the Climate Action Accelerator, a non-for-profit initiative based in Geneva aiming to support aid and health organisations to halve their emissions by 2030, turn them into vectors of change and share climate solutions as an open source common good within a transnational community of practice.
Previously Director-General of Médecins sans Frontières Switzerland, he is the author of several articles on the humanitarian, health and aid dimensions of the climate crisis. He was a Global Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in 2018-2019 and a regular contributor on climate at Geneva Solutions, an online media.
Bruno has extensive experience in the fields of humanitarian action and international health, crisis and instability situations, as well as expertise in the strategic steering of organizations and local government. He began working in the Horn of Africa in 1993 and during the Rwandan refugee crisis in Goma, and then joined MSF from 2001 to 2018 in various positions of responsibility, as head of mission in Iran, programme manager of portfolio of countries, director of operations, and then Director-General from 2011 until end 2017. He was part of the executive committee of MSF's international movement, member of the boards of Epicentre, the Access Campaign for Essential Medicine and MSF Logistique.
He completed the Breakthrough Programme for Senior Executives at IMD Lausanne in 2017, holds a Masters’ degree in International Relations and International Law, after studying at the Institutes of Political Studies in Strasbourg and Paris.