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Bernard Kouchner
French doctor and politician
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Bernard Kouchner (born 1 November 1939) is a French politician and doctor.
Mehdi hassan bernard kouchner biography
He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the center-right Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments.
In 2010, The Jerusalem Post considered Kouchner the 15th most influential Jew in the world.[1] Since 2015 Kouchner is workstream leader for the AMU (Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine), where he contributes his expertise in healthcare.[2]
Early life
Kouchner was born in Avignon, to a Jewish father and a Protestant mother.
Kouchner's paternal grandparents were Russian-born Jews who escaped the pogroms by immigrating to France, but perished decades