Rony Brauman
Writing
- Born
- June 19, 1950 (age 76) · Jerusalem, Palestine (now Israel)
Rony Brauman (born June 19, 1950, in Jerusalem) is a French physician specializing in tropical diseases.
He was one of the early members of Médecins sans frontières (Doctors without Borders), and was its president from 1982 to 1994. As president, Brauman oversaw the financial and operational expansion of the movement, including the establishment of new operational centers and chapters around the world. He was a professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences po) from 1994 to 1997 and is now scientific advisor in the school of international affairs of Sciences po.
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With Israeli director Eyal Sivan, his cousin, he co-directed a documentary (1999) on the trial of Adolf Eichmann (1961) based on Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Brauman is also Director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester.
Known for
Behind the camera1
- 1999The Specialist Writer
Acting2
- 2023Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell as Self - Physician
- 2004De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs as Self (archive footage)