Jacques Moreillon (born 1939) served as

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of the

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(ICRC) until 1988 and as

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of the

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(WOSM) from November 1, 1988 to March 31, 2004. Moreillon was born in

Vevey Vevey (; frp, Vevê; german: label=former German, Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. It was the seat of the district ...

, Switzerland. He studied at the

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and obtained a doctorate in political science from the

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. He became an ICRC delegate in 1965, and rose to the rank of Director General by 1988. In 1988 he became Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), a role he held until 2004. During this time the WOSM membership grew from 16 million members in 120 countries to 28 million members in 155 countries.

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Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award World Scout Committee members Living people 1939 births Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni People from Vevey {{Scout-bio-stub

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