Few Canadians have heavier global responsibility—and a lower profile at home—than Joanne Liu, the international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Raised in the Quebec City suburb of Charlesbourg, Liu is the second Canadian to lead the medical humanitarian aid group, and the first from any country to serve two consecutive terms. She spoke to Maclean’ssenior writer Paul Wells about the issues that have dominated her tenure: two Ebola outbreaks, huge numbers of migrants crossing international borders and a sustained and deadly 2015 bombing attack on an MSF field hospital in Afghanistan by the United States military.
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Source: Macleans
