Current Post: United Nations Resident Representative and UNDP Resident Representative for ten Pacific Island Countries, based in Suva, Fiji. Major current conflict-related tasks related to the UNDP programme in the Solomons, including the demobilization of special constables, constitutional reform, weapons-free village programme, national economic recovery plan etc.  Established UNDP sub-office in the Solomons, reporting to the UNDP Suva office.

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1991-1994              Deputy Director, UNDP’s Global Humanitarian Programme (which has since changed to UNDP’s Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Recovery); concurrently managed the global UNDP/DHA Disaster Management Training Programme (DMTP)

1994-1998              United Nations Resident Representative and UNDP Resident  Representative in Papua New Guinea.  Responsible for first UNDP rehabilitation programme in Bougainville

1998-2001              United Nations Resident Representative and UNDP Resident  Representative in Sri Lanka.  Responsible for relief and rehabilitation programme involving over three hundred UN system staff and contractees throughout the island.

Chief Professional interest: the role of good governance in both conflict prevention and conflict recovery.

Past service for the United Nations (since 1971) also in Togo, Nepal, Bangladesh and New York.