“Digital Disasters – How new technologies are transforming humanitarian aid for the better”

Watch the video of Paul Conneally’s 2010 talk here.

Paul Conneally has worked as a journalist since 1988 in the print and broadcast media, primarily in the area of news reportage and documentaries that focus on socio-economic development and international politics. His first assignment with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) was as an information delegate in Azerbaijan in 1995. In December 1996 Paul moved to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) where he stayed for 11 years working primarily in communications but also in fund raising and operations. Contexts where Paul has worked and lived with the ICRC include the North Caucasus, Central Asia, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Israel & the Occupied Territories. He has also spent two and a half years as head of ICRC’s donor reporting in Geneva.

Paul assumed his current function as head of Media and Public Communication with the IFRC in Geneva in August 2008. He oversees all aspects of public communication including audio visual production, advocacy initiatives, and online and social media. He has a BA degree in Communications and a Masters degree in International Development and Cooperation and holds a Post-Graduate certificate in Advanced Studies in International Humanitarian Law. He is married to Linda with three young sons aged from three to eight years.

Paul’s online activity includes a blog; Twitter profile; and LinkedIn.

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François Bugnion, Master of Arts and Doctor of Political Science (Public International Law), is an independent consultant in humanitarian law and humanitarian action.

He joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1970 and served as a delegate in Israel and the occupied territories (1970-1972), Bangladesh (1973-1974), Turkey and Cyprus (1974), and then as head of mission in Chad (1978), Vietnam and Cambodia (1979).

From 1989 to 1996, he was Deputy Director for Principles and Law at the ICRC; from 1996 to 1998 General Delegate for Eastern Europe and Central Asia; from 1998 to 1999, Diplomatic Adviser of the Directorate and from January 2000 to June 2006, Director for International Law and Cooperation within the Movement at the ICRC as well as a member of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.

He published more than fifty articles on international humanitarian law or Red Cross history and a reference work on the ICRC: The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Protection of War Victims, MacMillan, Oxford, 2003, lxviii & 1161 pages (original French : Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge et la protection des victimes de la guerre, second edition, ICRC, Geneva, 2000, LV & 1444 pages).

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