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About Maurice Machenbaum
- Maurice Machenbaum of Switzerland (born August 7, 1970 [1]) was the appointed treasurer of the World Scout Committee, the main executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, from 2007 to 2013.
- He is a social development and project management expert as well as a philanthropy advisor. Machenbaum has been a Cub Scout leader, Scout Group leader, trainer of Cub Scout leaders and founder of Scout groups of street children (boys and girls) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- He participated in the 1995, 1999, 2007 and 2011 World Jamborees, among other international events. Machenbaum is a Swiss citizen, a graduate in Law with a Master's degree in Humanitarian Action from the University of Geneva.
- He started his career in 1994 as Street Educator with the non-governmental organization Casa Alianza in Honduras, an international NGO dedicated to the defense and rehabilitation of street children in Central America and Mexico.
- In 1995, he became Assistant to the Executive Director for Latin America and in 1998, he founded Casa Alianza in Nicaragua and became its Program Director.
- He was subsequently in charge of research on the topic of child soldiers at the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- In 2000 he became Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean for Terre des hommes Lausanne, Switzerland's largest independent child-focused NGO.
- In 2004 Machenbaum and a friend founded WISE [2], a philanthropy advisor company, which facilitates links between wealthy individuals and social entrepreneurs.
- He is currently its executive director. He was also member of the board of Médecins du Monde [3] Switzerland from 2010 to 2013 and currently sits on the boards of Cansearch Foundation [4] (Children's cancer research) and Swiss Philanthropy Foundation [5].
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