The Global Humanitarian Forum was a non-profit foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, active from 2007 to 2010.

Presided over by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, its secretariat was established by Meinrad Studer, assigned by the SDC.

The Forum intended to serve as an independent platform for debate and collaboration on global humanitarian issues.

The organisation encountered serious financial diffulties due to which the Forum had to dismiss its staff in March 2010.

[1][2] On 31 March 2010 the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs announced that the Forum was over-indebted and obliged to cease its activity.