# Jacques Moreillon

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'''Jacques Moreillon''' (born 1939) served as [Director General](/source/Director_General) of the [International Committee of the Red Cross](/source/International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross) (ICRC) until 1988 and as [Secretary General](/source/Secretary_General) of the [World Organization of the Scout Movement](/source/World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement) (WOSM) from November 1, 1988 to March 31, 2004.

Moreillon was born in [Vevey](/source/Vevey), [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland). He studied at the [University of Lausanne](/source/University_of_Lausanne) and obtained a doctorate in political science from the [Graduate Institute of International Studies](/source/Graduate_Institute_of_International_Studies) in [Geneva](/source/Geneva). He became an ICRC delegate in 1965, and rose to the rank of Director General by 1988.<ref name=wosm>{{cite web|url=http://www.scout.org/en/our_organisation/governance/world_bureau/secretary_general/jacques_moreillon|title=Jacques Moreillon|publisher=World Organization of the Scout Movement|access-date=2009-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529175128/http://www.scout.org/en/our_organisation/governance/world_bureau/secretary_general/jacques_moreillon|archive-date=2009-05-29|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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.<ref name=wosm/>

==See also==
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* [World Organization of the Scout Movement](/source/World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement)

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