Michaela Told

Michaela Told currently coordinates the Global Health Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Prior to moving into academia, she has been working more than 10 years with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement at local, regional and international level, most recently heading the Principles and Values Department of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Earlier in her career, she worked with the Austrian Ministry of Development Cooperation and later served as Secretary General of an international women’s human rights NGO based in Geneva. In her current position at the Graduate Institute she is responsible for the successful implementation of the activities of the Global Health Programme. She holds a MSW (International Social Work, School of Social Work Vienna), a MCom (Development Economics, University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna), and a MA in Development Studies (Women & Development, Institute of Social Studies The Hague).