CARE International Names New Secretary General

GENEVA, Switzerland (June 28, 2007) - CARE International, one of the world's largest non-government humanitarian organizations, has chosen Dr. Robert Glasser to be its new Secretary General, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Glasser will take over from Denis Caillaux, who held the post for nearly five years.

"Dr. Glasser brings a rich perspective and broad range of experience to CARE," says Lydia M. Marshall, CARE International's chairwoman. "He has managed complex projects on a very large scale, and he is intimately aware of the challenges faced by both poor communities and donors."

Dr. Glasser, 48, has been CEO of CARE Australia since 2003. Before joining CARE, he worked on international energy, environmental and peace and conflict issues for a number of organizations, including the U.S. Department of Energy, Cornell University's Peace Studies Program and London's International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the author of numerous papers and, in 1991, co-edited "Climate Change and Energy Policy" for the American Institute of Physics.

In 1995, he moved to Canberra to join the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid), where he became assistant director general. During his eight years with the agency he held a number of responsibilities, including managing the Corporate Policy and Mekong branches and AusAid's largest overseas development program in Papua New Guinea. It was at this time that he came into increasing contact with CARE. "CARE was always in the most remote areas, with a focus on getting help to people that was practical rather than ideological," he later told the Sydney Morning Herald.

At CARE Australia, Dr. Glasser managed a large staff, overseeing emergency relief and long term overseas development programs in countries including Cambodia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and Jordan.

In his new position as secretary general, Dr. Glasser will be responsible for coordinating the work of the 12 national member organizations that come under the global CARE International umbrella. The confederation that Dr. Glasser will be overseeing has more than 60 years of experience and is one of the world's largest non-religious, non-political humanitarian organizations devoted to fighting poverty. CARE runs development programs in nearly 70 countries and has a staff of nearly 15,000 employees in the field. Approximately 90 percent are nationals in the countries where CARE works.