Yemen's Crisis
Featuring
Cédric Schweizer
Head of Delegation in Yemen, International Committee of the Red Cross
with discussion from
Dr. J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
Kimberly Flowers
Director, CSIS Global Food Security Project
moderated by
Dr. Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, CSIS Middle East Program
Cédric Schweizer has served as the head of delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen since April 2013. Schweizer currently leads a team of 250 staff working to provide protection and assistance to victims of armed conflict in Yemen. Over the course of his 14 year career at ICRC, Schweizer has served in leadership roles for the organization's operations in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Burundi , the West Bank, Guinea, Ethiopia, and West and Central Africa. He previously worked at the Geneva-based law firm Ringgenberg & Schulthess. Schweizer obtained his M.A. in law from the Université de Geneve in Switzerland.
J. Stephen Morrison is senior vice president at CSIS and director of its Global Health Policy Center. Morrison writes widely, has directed several high-level commissions, and is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa, and foreign assistance. He served in the Clinton administration, as committee staff in the House of Representatives, and taught for 12 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College.
Kimberly Flowers is director of the CSIS Global Food Security Project, which examines and highlights the impact of food security on U.S. strategic global interests. The project evaluates current efforts and provides long-term, strategic guidance to policymakers to ensure that U.S. foreign assistance programs are efficient, effective, and sustainable. Prior to this, she was the communications director for Fintrac, an international development company focusing on hunger eradication and poverty alleviation through agricultural solutions. From 2005 to 2011, she worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, leading strategic communications for the Feed the Future initiative after working in Ethiopia, Jamaica, and Haiti as a development, outreach, and communications officer.
Jon B. Alterman is senior vice president at CSIS, holds the Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and directs the Center’s Middle East Program. Prior to joining CSIS in 2002, he served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State and as a special assistant to the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. He is a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel and served as an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group (also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission). He teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
