Pascal Hundt joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1995 and held various positions in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He later served as head of delegation in Somalia, Jordan, Sudan and Afghanistan.
From 2012 to 2018, as head of the Assistance Division at the ICRC’s headquarters in Geneva, he oversaw teams of experts and ICRC programmes in health, economic security, water and habitat, and weapon decontamination.
Since 2019, he has been a head of delegation at large and senior crisis manager within the Office of the Director of Operations, providing managerial and strategic support to ICRC delegations confronted with complex crises or serious security incidents. In this capacity, he served as head of the delegations in the DRC, the Central African Republic, Somalia and Syria, and head of mission in Nagorno-Karabakh. He was also head of delegation in Ukraine from early March to October 2022 and returned to the DRC in 2023. He was in charge of the ICRC’s operations in Gaza in 2023 and 2024.
Pascal Hundt has a medical background and holds a post-graduate degree in development and international relations from the University of Geneva.
He is married and has three children.