Mr Fletcher succeeds Martin Griffiths, additionally from the UK, who stepped down on the finish of June for well being causes.
Tom Fletcher, UN’s new chief of humanitarian affairs, assumed workplace on Monday, pledging to defend humanitarian values whereas navigating operations amid rising world crises.
Mr Fletcher, a former UK Ambassador and coverage adviser to 3 British Prime Ministers, was appointed the United Nations (UN) Below-Secretary-Normal for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Reduction Coordinator by Secretary-Normal António Guterres in October.
In his new position, he can even head the Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Mr Fletcher succeeds Martin Griffiths, additionally from the UK, who stepped down on the finish of June for well being causes. Within the interim, Joyce Msuya, the Deputy Emergency Reduction Coordinator, served as appearing Below-Secretary-Normal.
As the brand new high humanitarian official, Mr Fletcher acknowledged that he’s “below no phantasm as to how powerful this mission is.”
“The impression on civilians of battle, local weather change, inequality and injustice is rising at a staggering fee,” he mentioned in an announcement.
“I’ll defend our humanitarian motion and humanitarian values, and battle to make us extra environment friendly, strategic, inclusive and modern. We should win afresh the argument for worldwide solidarity,” he added.
Earlier than his appointment, Mr Fletcher was Principal of Hertford Faculty, Oxford, and Vice Chair of Oxford College’s Convention of Schools.
He brings intensive expertise in main and reworking organisations, together with a robust background in diplomacy, having beforehand served as World Technique Director on the World Enterprise Coalition for Training, in response to a UN biographical word.
Mr Fletcher additionally labored carefully with the UN throughout his UK diplomatic profession in Africa, the Center East, and Europe, together with as Head of the Center East Peace Course of on the Overseas and Commonwealth Workplace.
He’s the twelfth particular person to take this position because the creation of what’s now the UN Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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