📰 Filippo Grandi is the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a UN agency headquartered in Geneva offering assistance to those forced to flee conflicts and persecution worldwide, such as refugees and forcibly displaced people, as well as people to whom nationality is denied. He previously served as the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and worked with the United Nations in numerous other countries that faced or still face a multitude of crises, such as Yemen, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria and Iraq.

In this episode, he talks about how he personally approach these crises, as the number of forcibly displaced people and refugees worldwide keeps rising and is now almost two times higher than 10 years ago. This episode was recorded on March 1st of 2024 and the international conflicts he is referring to may have had new outcomes since then.

Sciences Po Journalism School and The Paris School of International Affairs launched the third season of “What keeps you up at night,” the podcast that covers how leaders sleep when dealing with some of the world’s biggest crises.

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