Eduardo Missoni

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Eduardo MISSONI

"I am doing my best to leave this world a little better than I found it"

The former Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) ..... read more

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The studies Medical doctor, specialist in Tropical Medicine at the Rome University "La Sapienza" and Master of Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The professional commitment A long experience in Developing Countries, first as a volunteer (in Nicaragua), where he committed himself to health and social development of local rural communities, and to public health management. Later, as a Unicef officer (in Mexico), he was in charge for Primary Health Care projects and for health and social promotion of children and women. From 1987 to the 31st of August 2002 he was a health adviser to the Directorate General for Development Cooperation (Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo) of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministero degli Affari Esteri), in charge for health and social development initiatives in cooperation with Latin America and most of Sub-Saharan Africa. During the last year in that office he was in charge for emergencies and humanitarian aid worldwide. During th ewhole period he was also in charge for the technical relations with the World Health Organization(WHO) and in many occasions he represented Italy at international technical and scientifical meetings. The challenges he faced during the period spent with the Italian Cooperation are described in a long letter.
On occasion of the Italian G8 Presidency (2001), he chaired the health experts group until the month of April, when he left that task due to the reasons described in the letter he sent to the Prime Minister. Since September 2002 he has been teaching at the Università Commerciale "Luigi Bocconi" of Milan (Department for Public Management, Health and No Profit of the University's Postgraduate Management School SDA-Bocconi) and collaborating with its Health-care Management Research Center (Centro di Ricerche Gestione Assistenza Sanitaria - CERGAS). Together with colleagues and students he also promoted a Research Group on "Cooperation, development and global health". He has been a speaker at several congresses and developed teaching activities also in other academic and training environments. Besides development, international cooperation and health, he has been very much involved in issues related to decentralization and local development. On April 1st 2004 he is appointed Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement - WOSM (with central office in Geneva). (read the communiqué of his appointment and press review) In three and a half years of intense activity, with the full support of the World Scout Committee, he contributed to relaunch the Scout Movement restarting from its fundamental principles and values. repositioning it in the international context as a culture of Peace and a social force able to give a construcive contribution to society. In 2007, in the middle of the centenary celebrations of Scouting, ... he is replaced on November 30th. for more information 2004-2007 - Press review Activities of the former Secretary General of WOSM from April 2004 to November 2007 (permanent link) Publications Missoni published several scientific papers and articles in the areas of public health, development and international cooperation. "Misa Campesina", his story about the years he spent as a volunteer in Nicaragua Read the reviews - look at the pictures Second edition, 2001 - Buy it on-line!! "Salute e Globalizzazione" (health and globalization) The 2004 of the Italian Global Health Watch (Osservatorio Italiano sulla Salute Globale) (editor Eduardo Missoni) publisher: Feltrinelli, 2004 "Elementi di salute globale" (basics of Global Health) Globalization, health policies and human health by Eduardo Missoni e Guglielmo Pacileo Preface of Giovanni Berlinguer publisher: Franco Angeli, 2005	Click on the picture to enlarge At the moment of his appointment as the Secretary General of WOSM with the Chairperson of the World Scout Committee (2002-2005) Marie Luise Correa (from Senegal) Click on the picture to enlarge Interchanging ides with Scouts at the World Scout Jamboree 2007
Civic and social commitment He actively promoted concrete initiatives for social participation and active citizenship. He is among the founders (President until 2004) of the Italian Global Health Watch - Osservatorio Italiano sulla Salute Globale He has been among the promoters and for a long time the President of the Association of Development Cooperation Workers - Associazione degli Operatori di Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (AdOCS) From childhood and later during many years as an educator (leader) he has been involved in the Scout Movement (AGESCI). He proposed and promoted the establishment of a Municipal Childhood Watch - Osservatorio comunale sull'infanzia in support of the policies for children of the city of Rome (Comune di Roma). He founded in Rome the Association and Community "Il Tetto", that since many years operates in the area of family support and socio-economic integration of youth in difficult circumstances (www.iltetto.org) He is among the founders and now Honorary President of the citizens committee of the XXth Municipality of Rome - Comitato Cittadino per la XX Circoscrizione del Comune di Roma - Municipio Roma XX (www.romacivica.net/ccxx) Since 2005 he is a member of the Board of the Jacobs Foundation, whose mission is the promotion of education.
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