Eduardo Missoni
Dr. Eduardo Missoni (born 1954), was Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from April 2004 to November 2007. Dr. Missoni made his Scout Promise more than forty years ago, on the 7th July, 1965. Ever since then he has strived to live up to this promise in his daily life. Eduardo was actively involved in Scouting as a boy, and later as an adult Scout leader in Italy. He proudly says that Scouting has shaped his life, and he strongly believes that Scouts today can make real changes to create a better world.
He became a medical doctor, specialising in tropical medicine, and started his professional life as a volunteer doctor in Nicaragua.
Later he worked as a UNICEF officer in Mexico. He has strong personal experience in, and a commitment to the development of civil society initiatives for disadvantaged youth, and a dedication to the promotion of active citizenship.
For sixteen years he was responsible for the Italian government's health cooperation programmes in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. He has extensive field experience with youth development issues in a wide variety of cultures. He remains a professor at the prestigious Bocconi University Management School in Milan, where he is involved in studies on Development Cooperation Management and Global Strategies for Health.
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