Business Daily meets: Jagan Chapagain
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The secretary general of the world’s biggest humanitarian network – the International Federation of the Red Cross - rose from humble beginnings in Nepal.
We hear how Jagan Chapagain became involved in humanitarian work, and how he deals with all of the current global crises, whilst remaining politically neutral.
(Picture: Jagan Chapagain. Credit: Getty Images)
Presenter: Ed Butler Producer: Olie D'Albertanson
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Una Chaplin and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles. |
| 0:05.7 | It tells the story of how my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others, were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. |
| 0:15.3 | Hollywood Exiles from CBC Podcasts and the BBC World Service. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.7 | Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:26.8 | And today on Business Daily, we're meeting a man right at the center of tackling many of the world's most intractable crises. |
| 0:34.1 | But you've probably never heard of him. |
| 0:36.7 | You know, for me, personally, I've always had this |
| 0:39.6 | drive that the world gets changed by small, small changes you can make. So I think every morning |
| 0:45.5 | I have that drive and that's been there forever. I go today and try to do something to make a |
| 0:50.4 | difference somewhere, you know. Jagann Chappaghan Chappagain, the head of the world's largest humanitarian network, the IFRC, |
| 0:59.1 | is talking to us here about his life, his work, and how best to prepare for climate change. |
| 1:06.1 | That's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:10.2 | We started when I was in high school. |
| 1:12.5 | When I was very young, I come from a very humble family and humble background. |
| 1:17.8 | For me, my interest was to do something good and maybe working at the community level, |
| 1:23.2 | mobilise the power of young people, getting into a bit of a leadership type of role. |
| 1:28.9 | This is Jagan Chapagane. His rise from humble origins in a small village in Nepal to |
| 1:35.1 | becoming the Secretary-General of the International Federation of the Red Cross is the stuff |
| 1:40.1 | of dreams for many people. It was, he says, driven by his own early fascination in politics |
| 1:46.6 | and a clear sense that he had to do something with his life. |
| 1:50.6 | I was not that great on sports. As you know, as young people, that's sort of where everybody's |
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