Rafael Vilasanjuan

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Rafael Vilasanjuan, journalist, is the Director of Global Analysis and Development at ISGlobal since March 2011. He was the Director of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) from 2006 to 2011. For more than 12 years, he also worked with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), starting as Director of Communications in 1995 and later as Director General of the Spanish Section. In 1999, when Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he was appointed Secretary General of the international movement until 2006. During this period, he worked in the main conflict zones, such as Afghanistan, Chechnya, Somalia, Sudan, West Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia and Iraq. He is a member of the Board of Directors of GAVI (Global Alliance of Vaccines Immunization) representing civil society organisations, as well as a member of the Advisory Council of Open Democracy and the Advisory Committee of IFIT (Institute for Integrated Transitions), among others.