Christoph von Toggenburg, CEO, World Vision Switzerland, and Liechtenstein
- Christoph is the CEO of World Vision Switzerland and Liechtenstein and a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum (WEF) where he was Head of Social Engagement and the Global Future Council on the Humanitarian System.
- Prior to his WEF engagement, he worked for ten years on the front lines of conflicts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America for the ICRC and UN.
Podcast
Overview
We want to have an impact. We want our lives to touch other people. We want our work to endure. We want the world to be a better place because of our presence in it. But in the day-to-day rush of life, it’s easy to think that “changing the world” is an unachievable huge, even arrogant, goal. Christoph von Toggenburg is making an impact. Listen to this episode to know how.
00:09- About Christoph von Toggenburg
- Christoph is the CEO of World Vision Switzerland and Liechtenstein and a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum (WEF) where he was Head of Social Engagement and the Global Future Council on the Humanitarian System.
- Prior to his WEF engagement, he worked for ten years on the front lines of conflicts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America for the ICRC and UN.
- He founded the Colour the World Foundation, helping leprosy patients around the world, and carried out humanitarian expeditions such as Alegria (2010), Bike for Help (2002), and Run for Help (1998).
01:07- What were two or three inflection points that made this astounding person you are today?
- In this case, it was mostly working with people who were physically challenged, so disabled persons. And it really opened a different dimension. And it also broke down sort of bit, the fear that comes with that, and you realize, there are so many realities outside your own.
- Just after my 30th birthday in 2006, I was sent on an emergency mission to the Central African Republic. And I was almost killed in an assassination. And it really reinforced my belief that I want to use a lot of my energy, to help people who are in much less fortunate situations and who need help.
06:23- Empowering women in the largest refugee camps in the world called Bidibidi
- I went to one of the largest refugee camps in the world called Bidibidi and there are met a girl called Everlean.
- Everlean is severely disabled, and her mother, Martha, had to flee the war or the unrest in South Sudan because her husband was killed.
- She was raped on the way, and she got into this camp, and she was very desperate.
- She was one of them, but many other women, we empower with financial skills and microloans.
- She built up her own business.
12:34- Journey with the UN
- I was very impressed by the work that was done.
- But sometimes the challenges that you face are like, take the example of a refugee camp.
- Refugee camps are like cities. They have very similar dynamics but people make them so different.
- People don’t necessarily come from the same community. So, they’re just thrown together into a pot. And they don’t know when they can ever return.
- But I think sometimes it’s the frustration that you have with bureaucracies that make it challenging.
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Profile
- Christoph is the CEO of World Vision Switzerland and Liechtenstein and a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum (WEF) where he was Head of Social Engagement and the Global Future Council on the Humanitarian System.
- Prior to his WEF engagement, he worked for ten years on the front lines of conflicts in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America for the ICRC and UN.
- He founded the Colour the World Foundation, helping leprosy patients around the world, and carried out humanitarian expeditions such as Alegria (2010), Bike for Help (2002), and Run for Help (1998).
