Prof. Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President, ICRC

Gilles Carbonnier is the vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (appointed in 2018). Dr Carbonnier has over thirty years of experience in humanitarian action, international development and trade. Since 2007, Dr Carbonnier has been a full professor of development economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), where he also served as
director of studies and president of the Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action.
His expertise is in international cooperation, war and peace economies, and the nexus between natural resources and development. His latest book is entitled Missing Dollars: Illicit Financial Flows from Commodity Trade (Brill, 2024). In 2016, he released the monograph Humanitarian Economics. War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market with Hurst and Oxford University Press.

Prior to joining the Graduate Institute, Dr Carbonnier worked with the ICRC in Iraq, Ethiopia, El Salvador and Sri Lanka (1989–1991), and served as an economic adviser at the ICRC’s headquarters (1999–2006). Between 1992 and 1996, he was in charge of international trade negotiations (GATT/WTO) and development cooperation programmes for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs.