Speakers

Bruno Jochum is the director and founder of the Climate Action Accelerator. He has been involved in emergency medical humanitarian action for 20 years, having worked all over the world, from Iran to Rwanda to South Africa. After several years in the field with Médecins du Monde as well as with Médecins sans Frontières, he became successively Programme Manager, Director of Operations and then Director General of Médecins sans Frontières in Geneva (OCG), an NGO employing 7000 staff and a budget of 260 million CHF. Before launching the initiative, he was a Global Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, where the Accelerator was incubated. Bruno has a degree from Sciences Po Strasbourg in Political Studies and holds a Master’s in Political Science from University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne and in International Public Law from the University of Nancy. His awareness of the human impacts of climate change and his taste for challenge led him to launch this new non-profit initiative, which aims to make a difference by operationalising climate action and provoking a domino effect among organisations in society.