The Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent and its Member Biographies updated 11 January

Rito Alcantara
1977-1981
Mr Rito Alcantara served as a member of the Standing Commission between October 1977
and November 1981. Prior to his election, Mr Alcantara had been a founding member of the
Senegalese Red Cross and later became its President from 1964 until 1974. Internationally,
he has been involved in Movement activities too. He was the Vice-President of the League of
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from 1969 until 1973 and President of the Commission
for the Revision of the Statutes and Rules of the League (1973-1977). Outside the
Movement, he was President of the Rotary Club of Dakar and a Member of the Executive
Committee of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). 88 He graduated
from the University of Montpellier and the University of Dakar and was educated as a
pharmacist. He was born in 1922 and died on February 8 th 2003 in Dakar. 89
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