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A doctor gives a shot to a child.

Nicolas de Torrente: Doctors Without Borders Displaced By Conflict

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  • ABOUT Nicolas de Torrente

    Nicolas de Torrente is the adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). For eight years, he was the executive director of the U.S. Section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. He has a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on November 13, 2005.

The executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the organization’s 34-year history and the changing nature of providing medical care and humanitarian relief to people displaced by conflict.

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Nicolas de Torrente, Doctors Without Borders, Displacement, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Chechnya, Darfur, Morocco

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