{"id":218286,"date":"2019-08-01T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T19:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=218286"},"modified":"2020-07-22T00:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:43:49","slug":"mr-christian-saunders-of-the-united-kingdom-acting-deputy-commissioner-general-of-unrwa","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/mr-christian-saunders-of-the-united-kingdom-acting-deputy-commissioner-general-of-unrwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary-General Appoints Christian Saunders Acting Deputy Commissioner-General of ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA – Press Release (SG\/A\/1894-BIO\/5235-PAL\/2232)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SG\/A\/1894-BIO\/5235-PAL\/2232<\/strong>
\n1 AUGUST 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fran\u00e7ais<\/a><\/p>\n

The Office of Internal Oversight Services is currently investigating allegations of misconduct in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA). The Secretary-General is committed to acting, as appropriate, once he receives the findings and recommendations. The Secretary-General continues to consider the work undertaken by ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA as essential to Palestinian refugees.\u00a0 He calls upon Member States and other partners to remain committed to ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA and its services and continue their support for the crucial work performed by the Agency.<\/p>\n

With the aim to support ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA and ensure operational continuity, the Secretary-General has decided, in coordination with ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA\u2019s Commissioner-General, to appoint Christian Saunders of the United Kingdom as Acting Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA) at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.<\/p>\n

Mr. Saunders brings to the position over three decades of experience in humanitarian and international affairs with a strong focus on delivering results and overseeing major reforms leading to improved organizational effectiveness and efficiency.\u00a0 He is currently Assistant Secretary-General for Supply Chain Management and previously served as Assistant Secretary-General for the Office of Central Support Services.<\/p>\n

Mr. Saunders began his United Nations career in 1989 with ±¬ÁÏÍøRWA in Gaza and subsequently in senior United Nations roles as Chief of the Procurement Service (2001-2005), Chief of the Coordination and Support Service in the Office of Information and Communications Technology (2005-2009), Executive Officer for the Department of Safety and Security (2009-2013) and Director of the Office of the Under Secretary-General for Management (2013-2017).\u00a0 He also served in various capacities with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (±¬ÁÏÍøHCR), peacekeeping missions and the United Nations Population Fund (±¬ÁÏÍøFPA).<\/p>\n

Mr. Saunders is a graduate of Royal Holloway College, University of London and the University of Wales in the United Kingdom.\u00a0 He is married and has three children.<\/p>\n

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SG\/A\/1894-BIO\/5235-PAL\/2232 1 AUGUST 2019 Fran\u00e7ais The Office of Internal Oversight Services is currently investigating allegations of misconduct in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (±¬ÁÏÍøRWA). The Secretary-General is committed to acting, as appropriate, once he receives the findings and recommendations. The Secretary-General continues to consider the work […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2433,1329,3205],"document-source":[5352,1897,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,5200],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542,6541],"class_list":["post-218286","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-french-text","document-category-press-release","document-category-secretary-general-press-release","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english","document-language-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/218286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/218286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=218286"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=218286"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=218286"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=218286"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=218286"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=218286"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=218286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}