The BMJ Appeal 2024-25: David Miliband on hospital attacks, Trump, and the International Rescue Committee in a “flammable world”
Former UK foreign secretary, now president of the International Rescue Committee, talks to Kamran Abbasi about hospital attacks in war, the US president elect, and how his parents were refugees ### Biography David Miliband is president and chief executive officer of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), where he oversees the agency’s mission to help people affected by humanitarian crises to survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. The IRC now works in more than 40 countries affected by crisis and conflict and has refugee resettlement and assistance programmes in over 29 US cities, as well as in the UK and Europe. From 2007 to 2010, Miliband was the 74th secretary of state for foreign and Commonwealth affairs of the United Kingdom, driving advancements in human rights and representing the UK throughout the world. In 2006, as secretary of state for the environment, he pioneered the world’s first legally binding emissions reduction requirements. He was the member of parliament for S
