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Juan Coderque
Senior advisor on Innovative Finance
The International Committee of the Red Cross
Private Sector & Development author
Juan Coderque has worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) since 1997. He has had postings in the Caucasus, the DRC, South Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, the Sahel, the Russian Federation and Geneva. Over the past ten years, he has focused on exploring innovative public-private partnership and financing models for humanitarian action. The ICRC has recently merged its innovative finance capacity with the Humanitarian Innovative Finance Hub (HIFHUB), launched by the Danish Red Cross in early 2023 to enable innovative finance across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and the overall ecosystem. Juan is now Senior Advisor at the HIFHUB and at the ICRC.
The International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organizationwhose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence, and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the Geneva Conventions and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movements. It directs and coordinates the international activities conducted by the Movement in armed conflicts and other situations of violence.