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International President
The international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) leads the International Board and the International General Assembly, and represents MSF International.
Dr. Joanne Liu from Montreal, Quebec was elected international president in June 2013. She has been involved with MSF since 1996.
Dr. Liu has worked in Somali refugee camps in Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, Haiti, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Palestinian Territories, Uganda, Sudan and Sri Lanka.
She was an operational manager for MSF from 1999 to 2002, and served as president of MSF Canada from 2003 to 2009. She works at Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal as a full time pediatric emergency physician and at the Health Travel Clinic of the Montreal University Health Center.
Past international presidents of MSF
- 2010–2013 Unni Karunakara
- 2007–2010 Christophe Fournier
- 2004–2006 Rowan Gillies
- 2000–2003 Morten Rostrup
- 1998–2000 James Orbinski
- 1997–1998 Doris Schopper
- 1996–1997 Philippe Biberson
- 1995–1996 Doris Schopper
- 1994–1995 Jacques De Milliano
- 1992–1994 Rony Brauman
- 1992 Reginald Moreels
- 1991–1992 Rony Brauman
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