DILI, 28 february 2022 (TATOLI)— The United Nations (UN) Secretary General, António Guterres has appointed Amin Awad of Sudan as Assistant Secretary General to serve as the UN Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine.
Mr Awad has served in various senior roles in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It also includes experience as Director of the Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa and Director of the Emergency, Security and Supply Division. He gained experience for more than 30 years. I was a specialist in the field of international affairs. Humanitarian, strategic action, planning and development.
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Mr Awad has also served in leadership roles in complex field operations, including as UNHCR Representative in Sri Lanka, Regional Coordinator for Operations Iraq and Humanitarian Coordinator and Representative in North Macedonia.
“He served extensively in the Middle East and Commonwealth of Independent States, the former Yugoslavia, South and Southwest Asia, and Africa,” said the UN Secretary General through the official UN portal accessed by Tatoli, this monday.
Amin Awad’s career with UNHCR began in 1989 as Project Officer for the joint World Bank-UNHCR Project for Afghan Refugees in Quetta, Pakistan, before serving as Head of the Office for Northern Iraq (1991), Coordinator of Transboundary Kenya-Somalia Operations (1992), Acting Representative in Yemen (1992-1994) and Senior Regional Program Coordinator and Senior Area Coordinator for the Regional Bureau for Europe (1994-1999).
Amin Awad is a Member of the Advanced Leadership Initiative of Harvard University. He is fluent in English and Arabic.
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