Order of Malta

Paris: 90 years of Ordre de Malte France

Rome: Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre inaugurates the new Day Clinic in the San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Rome

Rome: Cooperation with Costa Rica stepped up

Rome: The Sovereign Order of Malta signs Cooperation Agreement with the Indian Ocean Commission

Timor Leste: Medical centre run by the Order of Malta to open soon in Timor Leste

Rome: The Constitutional Reform of the Sovereign Order of Malta

Rome: Pope Francis receives Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto and the Sovereign Council

Rome: Archbishop Becciu is received into the Order

South Sudan: Over five million people face starvation in South Sudan

Arquata del Tronto: Fra’ Giacomo Dalla Torre visits the earthquake areas in central Italy

Minister for Humanitarian Action and International Cooperation

The Grand Hospitaller’s responsibilities include the offices of Minister of Health and of Social Affairs and Minister for Humanitarian Action and Minister for International Cooperation. He coordinates and supervises the initiatives of the Grand Priories, National Associations and other Order institutions world-wide, all of which are involved in charitable and humanitarian actions, and ensures that Christian principles of care and human dignity are respected.

The Grand Hospitaller is assisted by a Council composed of representatives of all the territorial regions where the Order of Malta operates.

Grand Hospitaller H.E. Dominique Prince de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion in Obedience

Born on 6 July 1950 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, he is married with three children. He was educated at Worth School (Crawley, Great Britain) and later at College Champittet in Lausanne and Lycee Florimont in Geneva (Switzerland). He finished his studies at the Institut Superieur du Commerce of Paris.

From 1975 to 2004 he pursued a career in financial transactions, mainly in exchange transactions and on the gold market. Since 2003 he has managed a real-estate consultancy service and real-estate assets management company. He is administrator of the Societe des amis du Musee de la Legion d’honneur (Paris).

He was admitted into the Sovereign Order of Malta in 1992 and became a Knight in Obedience in 2008. Administrator of the Sovereign Order of Malta’s French Association since 1994, then Vice-president from 1997 to 2000, he was elected as its President from 2001 to 2014.

Administrator since 1997 of the Order of Malta’s Œuvres Hospitalieres Francaises, he was its Vice-president since 2012 as well as Vice-president of the Order of Malta’s French Foundation since 2008. From 2009 to 2014 he was Vice-chairman of the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem and, since 2010, member of the Sovereign Order of Malta’s International Hospitaller Committee (ICHOM — Rome).

He was elected Grand Hospitaller by the Chapter General which took place on 30-31 May 2014.