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Within the Organization, he most recently served as United Nations Resident Coordinator in Armenia, after holding several leadership positions at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he was Resident Representative in Armenia, Deputy Resident Representative in Georgia, Deputy Country Director in Lebanon, Regional HIV/AIDS Practice Team Leader for UNDP Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States in the Russian Federation, Programme Manager for the Western Balkans in New York and Assistant Resident Representative in the Russian Federation.
Read morePrior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Sharp began his career in development with the international non-profit CARE International in Zimbabwe. He is a published author of works in health economics and was a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) “Policy Champion” as well as a nominee for the UNDP Administrator’s Award.
Mr. Sharp holds a postgraduate diploma in HIV/AIDS management from the National Medical University of South Africa and Stellenbosch University, in South Africa; a master’s degree in economics from the University of Colorado, in the United States; and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Kansas, United States.
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Dr Soni served as the Chief, Climate Change, Resilience and Energy Programme at UNDP in India from 2018 to June 2021. She worked with UNDP India from 2004 and held multiple positions of Assistant Country Director and Head (Energy and Environment), Advisor (Climate Change), and the Resource Person for the UN Solution Exchange Environment Community. She was instrumental in developing several strategic programmes and partnerships and overseeing their implementation at UNDP. Prior to UNDP India, she worked with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi.
She holds a PhD in Environmental Economics and Climate Policy from the Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije University, The Netherlands and a Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India.
Dr Preeti Soni
Head
Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology (APCTT)
APCTT Building
C-2 Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi 110016
Tel: +91 11 30973700/1
Fax: +91 11 26856274
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Mr Somsak Pipoppinyo was appointed as the FAO Representative ad interim India effective 1 February 2022. Prior to this appointment, Somsak served as the FAO Representative in Nepal and Bhutan from 2013 to 2020. He led the design and implementation of FAO’s programmes for both countries given priorities to improving food and nutrition security, enhance agriculture productivity, protect environment and conserve natural resources, promote climate-resilient practices, and reduce rural poor.
Read moreAfter completion of the assignment as the FAO Representative in Nepal and Bhutan in 2020, he moves to his current positon as Programme Officer, FAOR Network, in the Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific (RAP) in Bangkok—providing necessary supports to all FAO Country Offices throughout the whole Asia-Pacific region. While serving in RAP, he was also appointed as FAO Representative ad interim Myanmar in March 2021, and completed the assignment with successful handed over all duties and functions, upon arrival of the new FAO Representative Myanmar in July 2021. He is now carrying on his roles and responsibilities being the Programme Officer, FAOR Network, in RAP office.
Before joining FAO, Somsak had 16-year working career with the ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, Indonesia, covered a wide range of regional and global issues, among others: trade promotion and market integration, finance and capital markets, transport and connectivity, information and communication technology (ICT), narrowing development gaps, food security, food safety, bio-fuel, environment, climate actions, forestry, biodiversity, genetically modified organization (GMO), plant and animal diseases, and pandemic preparedness. His last post before he left ASAEN was the Director of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) for Finance, Industry and Infrastructure Integration.
Somsak is a Thai national, holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Fisheries Biology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand, a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, U.S.A. and a Ph.D. in Aquatic Environment and Fisheries Management, Auburn University, Alabama, U.S.A.
Mr. Somsak Pipoppinyo
FAO Representative in India a.i.
55 Lodi Estate
New Delhi 110003
Tel: +91 11 46532202
Fax: + 91 11 24620115
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He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (2002). His academic background is coupled with extensive experience in leading interdisciplinary research in West Africa, with several publications in the fields of climate change, development economics, centred on agro-pastoral and small-holder farmers’ livelihoods.
Mr. Han Ulaç Demirag
Country Director
IFAD
Post Box #3059
55 Lodhi Estate
New Delhi – 110003, India
Tel: +91-11-46532333
Fax: +91-11-24627612
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Ms. Dagmar Walter, a Swedish-Swiss national, was appointed Director of the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team for South Asia and Country Office for India as of 22 February 2018. Ms. Walter was Deputy Director of the ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean from July 2014. Officer-in-Charge for extended periods, she fostered office efficiency and team spirit for more integrated technical assistance to constituents at national and CARICOM levels, in collaboration with stakeholders and development partners. Key areas included formalization, knowledge development through data and research, gender equality, inclusive workplace health promotion for productivity, child labour and youth employment, capacitated social partners, and just transition to environmental sustainability for climate resilience and a greener future of work.
As Head of the Management and Support Unit in the ILO Department of Statistics, Headquarters Geneva, 2009-2014, she played a key role in implementing a reform and change-management agenda, striving for modernised and relevant work methods by fostering talent management. In 2013, Ms. Walter was responsible for organizing the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, chaired by the India Chief Statistician, Prof Anant. Government, Employer and Worker representatives of some 100 countries adopted essential international measurement standards in the area of labour and decent work statistics.
From 2002 to 2009, Ms. Walter served in the Policy Integration Department and subsequently the Employment Policy Department. She managed technical cooperation projects building the capacity of the ILO and its constituents to effectively implement Decent Work Country Programmes. She was engaged in national development frameworks, implementing Millennium Development Goals and Poverty Reduction Strategies. She developed capacity building and knowledge sharing tools in close collaboration with various technical departments, field offices and the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, Italy. Ms. Walter worked in inter-regional programmes and focus countries like Ghana, Kazakhstan, Madagascar and Tanzania in the context of UNDAFs and One UN exercises.
Ms. Walter started her ILO career in 1999 as Programme Officer in the ILO Pretoria office, managing and coordinating operations in Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland. She collaborated with the Southern African Development Community (SADC). As Child Labour Focal Point she took part in the implementation of the first Survey of activities of young people in South Africa.
Prior to her ILO career, Ms. Walter worked with international development and human rights, primarily for the International Federation of Terre des Hommes and Amnesty International, as Consultant and Deputy Representative to the various UN human rights bodies in Geneva.
Ms. Walter holds a Master of Public Administration from the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP). She graduated in International Social Science from the Växjö University, Sweden. She also holds a Certificate in Human Resources Assessment from the Industrial Psychology Faculty of the University of South Africa, and a Certificate in French studies as foreign language from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ms. Dagmar Walter
Director
ILO DWT for South Asia and ILO Country Office for India
Core 4B, 3rd Floor, India Habitat Centre
Lodi Road
New Delhi 110003
Tel: +91 11 24602101-4
Fax: +91 11 24602111
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Before joining the IMF, Mr. Breuer held a number of policy and academic positions, including Member of the Board of Directors at the Central Bank of Paraguay, where his responsibilities included supervising monetary operations and international reserve management, advisor to the Ministers of Finance of Bolivia and Paraguay, visiting assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois, and advisor to Executive Director of the IMF. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign.
Mr. Andreas W. Bauer
Senior Resident Representative
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Room 102, First Floor
Lodhi Hotel, Lodhi Road
New Delhi 110 003
Tel: 91-11-61212345
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Previous to joining the International Organisation for Migration, Sanjay Awasthi was country head for Landesa India, an organisation working to secure legal land rights for world’s poorest families. He was Country Director of VSO, a UK based voluntary organisation, in Ghana. He has worked with Oxfam South Sudan, Malawi, Ethiopia and Sudan for about six years focusing on public health programmes, drought impact assessment and as country director. Mr Awasthi is a Masters in Sociology and an M Phil in Social Medicine and Community Health.
IOM Office in New Delhi
UNESCO House, Ground Floor,
1San Martin Marg, Chanakya Puri,
New Delhi – 110021, India
Tel: +91 11 24100026, 24100027
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Throughout his career, Mr Bridger has built substantial experience across policy and programming development along with broad contributions to advancing the organisation’s technical work. He has utilised his skills to benefit government and civil society’s contributions to the multilateral and bilateral spheres and, brought his practical expertise and leadership to support UN reform at the country level.
Prior to joining UNAIDS Mr Bridger worked with the Albion Street HIV Centre in Sydney, Australia. He was a member of their International Health Team where he worked and advised on their HIV support programme in Thailand. Earlier, Mr Bridger worked in media and publishing in Australia.
Mr Bridger has higher-level university qualifications in Psychology, Education and Knowledge Management. He is an avid walker and enjoys reading widely in history and biography when free time permits. Australian by birth, he also has extended family ties in New Zealand.
Mr David Bridger
Country Director
UNAIDS (United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS)
55 Lodi Estate
New Delhi 110003
Tel: +91 11 46532224
Fax: +91 11 24628078
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Ms. Shoko Noda (Japan) is UNDP Resident Representative in India. Previously, she was the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Maldives. Ms Noda was pivotal in taking forward the development agenda of the Maldives in a politically fluid and charged context. Effectively engaging key national political interlocutors, she has coordinated analysis, engagement and diplomatic action, in addition to strong resource mobilisation at a crucial transitional post-elections phase. She is a strong advocate for gender equality and climate action.
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Before that, Ms Noda was UNDP’s Country Director in Nepal from 2011 to 2014. She was UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Mongolia from 2006 to 2011 and Recovery Coordination Advisor to the UN Resident Coordinator in Pakistan from late 2005 to 2006. From May to October 2005 Shoko served with the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Chef de Cabinet to the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General. She worked in the HQ as Programme Specialist to the Administrator from 2002 to 2005. She was Assistant Resident Representative in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2001-2002) and joined UNDP as a JPO where she served in Kosovo (2000-2001) and Tajikistan (1998-2000). Ms Noda’s working career began in 1995 when she was Researcher in the Behavioural Sciences Department with Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc. in Tokyo.
Ms Noda holds a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science from Keio University, Japan.
Ms. Shoko Noda
Resident Representative-designate
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Post Box #3059
55 Lodhi Estate
New Delhi – 110003, India
Tel: +91-11-46532333
Fax: +91-11-24627612
Email: info.in@undp.org
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Prior to his appointment in New Delhi, Elias Legesse Woldeyes served for three years as Field Security Coordination Officer (FSCO) of Balochistan Pakistan, serving from 2015 – 2018. Throughout his 16 years of service in the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS), Elias Legesse engaged widely with UN Agencies, Funds, Programmes and Organizations as well as with International None and Governmental Organizations in a complex security environment.
Read morePrior to this appointment Mr. Woldeyes served as the Regional Security Adviser (based in Beijing, China and covering Mongolia, Japan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and Republic of Korea (ROK) from 2010-2015, FSCO North East Afghanistan from 2007 – 2010 and FSCO Lahore/Quetta Pakistan 2004 – 2007.
Before entering the United Nations Department of Safety and Security, Elias Legesse worked for 7 years in the US Embassy Ethiopia as a primary security adviser and 11 years in law enforcement and army. Since his graduation from the Ethiopian Police College and the German Police Academy, he has built a strong record of rapidly attaining managerial and operational positions within in the Ethiopian Police, Ethiopian National Army, an International Governmental Organization, as well as in the UN. Throughout his career, he has advanced within the professional ladder predominantly working his way up from the lowest position to one of the highest.
Elias Legesse is married and has two children.
Mr. Elias Woldeyes, UN Security Adviser
UNDSS
55, Lodi Estate
New Delhi 110003
Tel: + 91 11 465 32333
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Prior to Guyana, Ms. Tanaka served as the UNDP Country Director in Yemen and Timor-Leste, UNDP Deputy Country Director (Programmes) Pakistan, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Benin as well as in several other capacities with UNDP at its headquarters as well as in China and Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Before joining the United Nations system, she worked as project coordinator for a non-governmental organization in Thailand as well as in the financial sector in Japan.
Ms. Tanaka holds master’s degrees in public policy and management from the University of London and in rural development management from the Khon Kaen University, and a bachelor’s degree from the International Christian University.
Ms. Mikiko Tanaka
Director and Head, UNESCAP Subregional Office for South and South-West Asia Office
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
C-2 Qutab Institutional Area,
New Delhi 110 016
Ph: +91-11-30973701/30973702
Click here for UNESCAP Website
Until May 2014 Prof. Duraiappah was the Executive Director of International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) hosted by the United Nations University, Bonn, Germany. From 2006 to 2009 he was the Chief of the Ecosystem Services and Economics Unit of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to joining the U.N, Prof. Duraiappah worked as an academic in universities in Singapore, Italy, and the Netherlands. Dr. Duraiappah received his PhD in Economics from the University of Texas in Austin, USA. He has recently been appointed to his present post to enable UNESCO achieve the transformative shift envisioned for the post 2015 agenda.
Dr. Anantha Kumar Duraiappah
Director
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP)/UNESCO
35 Ferozshah Road
ICSSR Building 1st Floor
New Delhi 110001
Phone +91 11 23072356
Fax +91 11 23072361
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Prior to this assignment and since September 2010, he was based at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as the Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Public Information, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the UN. As such, he oversaw the work of the Organization in the political field, in particular relations with Member States, and coordinated activities geared towards civil society. He also guided UNESCO’s communications and public information efforts.
From 2007 to 2010, he served as Director of the Outreach Division at the United Nations Department of Public Information in New York.
Read moreFrom 2002 to 2007, Mr. Falt was simultaneously Director of Communications for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), based at its headquarters in Nairobi, and Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) for Kenya and Uganda.
Throughout the 1990’s and until 2002, he served in peacekeeping and humanitarian operations in Cambodia, Haiti and Iraq, and as Director of the UN Information Centre in Pakistan.
Since 1992, Mr. Falt has also served for the United Nations in Cambodia, Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan and Kenya.
Before joining the United Nations, Eric Falt was posted for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chicago and in New York.
Mr. Eric Falt
Director and UNESCO Representative to Bhutan, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka
UNESCO New Delhi Office
1 San Martin Marg,
Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi 110021, India
Tel: +91-11-26111871-73
Fax: +91-11-26111861
E-mail: newdelhi@unesco.org
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Ms. Wojnar holds Masters degrees in: Management from McGill University (Montreal, with studies at INSEAD France, Lancaster University UK, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, LG Institute Seoul, and JAIST Kanazawa), and in Global Social Change & Development/Economics from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (Washington D.C.), and a Bachelor’s degree with Honours from Wesleyan University, (Connecticut, USA).
She is passionate about using data and evidence to influence policy decisions that promote gender equality, empower women and girls, and ensure rights and choices for all.
Andrea M Wojnar
Representative, United Nations Population Fund, India & Country Director UNFPA Bhutan
55 Lodi Estate
New Delhi 110003
Tel: +91 11 46532224
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Between 2004 – 2005, Mr. Mundia worked on secondment to the Department of Peace Keeping Operations with the UN Mission in Liberia as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General.
He has also served as a Senior Inspection Officer in Inspector’s General Office; the Operations Manager; and later Deputy Director of Africa Bureau in UNHCR Headquarters, as well as Head of UNHCR Office in Peshawar, Pakistan and for a short period of time as Regional Representative a.i for the UNHCR Southern Africa operations.
Read moreFrom 2018 until his assignment to India as Chief of Mission, he worked as the Senior Solutions Coordinator, Bureau of Africa at UNHCR Headquarters.
Mr. Mundia holds a Master’s degree in Management from Thunderbird – American Graduate School of International Management in the USA; and a Bachelors’ in Political Science at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Mr Oscar Mundia
Chief of Mission, UNHCR India and Maldives
B-2/16, Vasant Vihar, 110057 New Delhi, India
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She has been instrumental in fostering livelihoods and people-centered approaches as Programme Manager of the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s flagship initiative, “Clean and Green Cities” project in twelve cities. Her major contribution to the evidence-based policy propositions and knowledge products, including, “Urban National Priority Programme” and “Future of Afghan Cities,” a land use atlas of more than 35 strategic urban areas, have shaped the urban ministry’s agenda in Afghanistan.
Prior to UN-Habitat, Ms. Agarwala has worked as a City Planner in the New York City Department of City Planning, where she gained hands-on experience in translating policy guidelines into zoning regulations for legislative enforcement of city-wide and neighborhood-level initiatives. Ms. Agarwala has also worked with the World Bank’s Global Practices of Urban, Rural, Disaster Risk and Social Development, and Water Practice based in Washington DC. In this capacity, she worked on several multi-sectoral operational projects and analytical work encompassing regional economic development, urbanization, urban renewal and transformation, land and housing, and governance in South Asia.
Ms. Agarwala has a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs in New York, USA, and a Master of Planning degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Ms. Parul Agarwala
Country Programme Manager
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
3rd Floor, HUDCO House, HSMI
CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, India
Tel: +91-11-47884777
Email: parul.agarwala@un.org
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Mr. Yasumasa Kimura
UNICEF India Country Representative a.i.
73 Lodi Estate
New Delhi – 110 003
Tel: +91 11 24690401
Fax: +91 11 24627521
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Since joining the UN in 2003 Mr. Farrant has worked in various communications roles at both its global headquarters in New York and in Sudan. Most recently he was Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications.
Mr. Farrant was previously a journalist for newspapers and websites in Australia and the United Kingdom. He has bachelor’s degrees in law and arts from the University of Melbourne.
Mr Darrin Stuart Farrant
Director
United Nations Information Centre
55 Lodhi Estate
New Delhi 110003, India
Tel: +91-11-46532333
Email: unic.india@unic.org
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From June 2015 to February 2017, he served as Chief Technical Advisor for UNIDO’s Resource efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) programme in Indonesia. RECP is aimed at improving the productive use of natural resources, leading to minimization of wastes, which in turn contributes to health and well-being, with competiveness benefits. He supported the national implementation partners and government counterparts to scale up and mainstream RECP, through technical and strategic inputs for training, assessment, advocacy and policy development, in particular in the food processing, textile and garment and tourism sectors and industrial parks.
From 2008 to 2015, he was Unit Chief (Cleaner and Sustainable Production) at UNIDO headquarters in Vienna. He provided oversight for the global RECP programme, guided the establishment and operation of the global RECP network and initiated thematic work on eco-industrial parks and RECP methods and tools. He also designed and managed national RECP programmes in Albania, Indonesia and Myanmar and regional RECP demonstration programme in the EU’s Eastern Partnership region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).
From 2008 to 2015, he was Unit Chief (Cleaner and Sustainable Production) at UNIDO headquarters in Vienna. He provided oversight for the global RECP programme, guided the establishment and operation of the global RECP network and initiated thematic work on eco-industrial parks and RECP methods and tools. He also designed and managed national RECP programmes in Albania, Indonesia and Myanmar and regional RECP demonstration programme in the EU’s Eastern Partnership region (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine). He was also key resource on green industry policy, low carbon and climate resilient industry and corporate social responsibility, in particular in Vietnam and elsewhere in SE Asia and China.
Between 2006 and 2008, he was an independent consultant in eco-efficiency, industrial ecology, technology transfer and innovation. From 1999 to 2006 he was Australia’s first full professor of Cleaner Production at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. During this time he established an applied research and teaching programme in cleaner production and industrial ecology. He also cemented innovative partnerships between government, business and civil society aimed at fostering sustainable industrialization, in sectors as diverse as minerals processing, manufacturing and services. From 1989 to 1999 he held various research and leadership positions at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. During this period he served extensively as a resource person to UNIDO, UNEP and other international organizations to support the first large scale applications of waste minimization in small scale industries in emerging economies in India and China.
Dr Van Berkel is a Dutch national and holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Amsterdam.
René Van Berkel
Officer in Charge/UNIDO Representative (designate)
UNIDO Regional Office United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) New Delhi, India
55 Lodi Estate
New Delhi – 110 003
Tel: +91 11 46532333
Fax: +91 11 24620913
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Susan is a development practitioner and is proud to have been part of UN Women, working to achieve the mandate of equality for women and girls in different countries.
Susan, a national of Australia, has a Master’s degree of International and Community Development and has 4 girls. She wants them to grow up in a just world where their contributions are valued and respected.
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
55 Lodhi Estate
New Delhi – 110003, India
Tel: +91-11-46532333
Fax: +91-11-24627612
Email: registry.india@unwomen.org
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Mr. Atul Bagai joined UN Environment’s Ozone Action programme under the Montreal Protocol as the Regional Officer for South Asia in 2000 and served as Senior Regional Coordinator to build the capacity of subregional networks in Asia and enable them to meet the compliance targets under the Montreal Protocol. In that capacity, he spearheaded and led some innovative initiatives with the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund. For instance, he was instrumental in designing and developing synergies between Ozone Depleting Substance phase out and climate change in Maldives and Bhutan; green procurement policies in Mongolia taking into account phase-out of Ozone Depleting Substance as a legislation; a study of carbon credits and Ozone Depleting Substance destruction in Nepal; and, most recently, the hydro-chloro-fluoro-carbon phase-out plan for India that included energy efficiency and the cold chain.
Read morePrior to joining UN Environment, Atul worked with the Government of India for 17 years in a number of senior positions such as Chief of Staff to two Ministers at the federal level (Ministry of Finance and Ministry of External Affairs) and to a Chief Minister at the provincial level. He also served as the Ozone Cell Director at the Ministry of Environment and Forests. Mr. Bagai, an Indian national, holds a Post-Graduate degree in History from the University of Delhi.
Mr. Atul Bagai
Head of Country Office
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), India
55, Lodi Estate
New Delhi 110003
Tel: + 91 11 465 32333
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Prior to his current assignment, Mr Parajuli served for the past five years in Zimbabwe as the UN Resident Coordinator and Designated Official of the UN Secretary General and also as the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Prior to joining the UN in Zimbabwe, Mr. Parajuli served as the UN World Food Programme Representative and Country Director in Yemen from 2013 to 2014 and in WFP HQ in Rome, as the Chief of Staff, Director of the Executive Directors Office, as well as the Director of Government Donor Relations. From 2008 to 2011, Mr Parajuli worked as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Myanmar. Prior to Myanmar, Mr. Parajuli was the WFP Representative and Country Director in Egypt. He has also served in various positions in WFP offices in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Botswana and its HQ in Italy. Bishow holds two Masters degrees in Agricultural Development and in Business Administration and an Honors degree in Agricultural Science.
Mr. Bishow Parajuli
WFP India
2 Poorvi Marg
Vasant Vihar
New Delhi 110057
Tel: +91 11 26150000
Fax: +91 11 26150019
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Before taking up his current position, Dr Ofrin was the Regional Emergencies Director for WHO South-East Asia Region providing strategic technical guidance and operational leadership to the ongoing response to the global COVID-19 pandemic across the Region.
Associated with WHO since 2002, Dr Ofrin has served in multiple roles starting as a Public Health Officer in a war-ravaged island nation of Timor-Leste, assisting in setting up of its health systems.
A major part of his career has been in the public health emergencies programme. From being involved in the response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami, a mega disaster that severely impacted multiple countries of WHO South-East Asia countries, Dr Ofrin went on to lead WHO’s response on the ground during major events such as the 2015 massive earthquake in Nepal, the ebola outbreak in Liberia, cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and most recently the Rohingya crisis.
Working in a Region prone to emergencies, Dr Ofrin significantly contributed to several innovative measures for strengthening emergency preparedness and response in the Region, that were later replicated globally. The South-East Asia Regional Benchmarks for emergency preparedness and response and the South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund (SEARHEF), are among the notable ones.
As Director Emergencies programme for the Region, Dr Ofrin gave a fillip to the flagship programme on reversing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and ‘One Health’ Regional Tripartite (FAO-OIE-WHO) initiative.
Leading Non-Communicable Diseases and Environmental Health Department during a brief stint in 2015, he worked with several teams across the Region on climate change, tobacco control, food safety, health promotion, nutrition and injury prevention.
Born in 1968 in the Philippines, Dr Ofrin holds a Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines; and a Master’s in Public Health from Hebrew University Hadassah, Israel.
Dr Ofrin was conferred the Director General’s Reward for leading Nepal Earthquake Response and Recovery.
To his credit are numerous publications that he has authored and co-authored on emergency and preparedness and risk management.
537, A Wing, Nirman Bhawan
Maulana Azad Road
New Delhi 110 011, India
Tel: +91 11 66564800, 47594800
Fax: +91 11 23062450
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Prior to the World Bank, Hideki worked for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile. He holds an MBA from Duke University, an M.A. in International Development from the
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