Beat Richner

Dr. Beat Richner (born March 13, 1947) is a Swiss pediatrician, cellist (Beatocello), and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia. He is the head of the Kantha Bopha Foundation, which was founded in Zurich in 1991 and is currently one of two expatriates who oversee and run the predominantly Cambodian employed hospitals. As both a cellist and a medical doctor, Dr. Beat Richner is known by both patients, audiences, and donors as "Beatocello".

Read more about Beat Richner:  Career, Kantha Bopha, Works

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