Presentation of the cluster

 

Benoît Miribel is the executive director of the Mérieux Fondation in Lyon-France since January 2007, working to defeat infectious diseases, especially in underprivileged countries.

He was during the last four years, executive director of "Action contre la Faim", a non-governmental international organization specialized in the fight against hunger. Programmes dealing with nutrition, water-sanitation, health and food security are currently operating in 40 countries over the world.

Prior to this position, he was Executive Director of "Institut Bioforce Development", a vocational training and guidance centre for actors involved in questions of solidarity; Director of Communication and Development at "Action contre la Faim" after having been in charge for the organization's programmes in Angola, Burma, Bosnia, Cambodia, Laos and Mozambique. He started his professional career in 1987 at Lyon St Exupéry Airport, as the manager in charge of the marketing and promotion unit.

He chairs the "Emergency and Post-Crisis" Commission of the French Haut Conseil de la Coopération Internationale (HCCI - A consultative body of the French First Minister)

 

Benoît Miribel has a post-graduate diploma (diplôme d'Etudes approfondies, D.E.A.) in International Relations at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and works on a PhD on relief NGOs governance.