Jean-Christophe Rufin, man without borders

World traveler, doctor, writer, advisor, researcher and diplomat, Jean-Christophe Rufin is an enigma. A hospital director at age 29, vice-president of Doctors Without Borders at 40, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2001, a member of the Académie française and French Ambassador to Senegal, this high-spirited maverick in his fifties prefers to call himself an anti-hero, knowing that he will always be an outsider in the eyes of a traditionalist country that doesn’t appreciate those who take more rambling paths. As he said in his autobiography: “My life has been one long uninterrupted ambulation. Why am I unable to limit myself to one destiny, and just one?” Portrait of an extraordinary and charismatic man… without borders.