United Nations Secretary-Common António Guterres has appointed Brian Williams of the USA because the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kyrgyzstan, with the host Authorities’s approval. He takes up his submit on 1 October.

Mr. Williams brings greater than 30 years of expertise in worldwide growth, peacebuilding, public well being, humanitarian work and growth coordination. He most lately served as Chief of the Peacebuilding Fund within the United Nations Peacebuilding Assist Workplace inside the Division of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), managing the Secretary-Common’s Peacebuilding Fund. He took up this position after his project as Chief of Coverage and Programming advert interim within the United Nations Improvement Coordination Workplace (DCO). Earlier than that, from 2015 to 2020, he served because the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Albania, after main the Peacebuilding Fund from 2010 to 2015, the place he oversaw financing initiatives to assist peacebuilding and battle prevention in international locations rising from battle. From 2001 to 2008, he labored on the worldwide HIV response, serving as Nation Coordinator of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Myanmar and in positions at UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva. Since 1990, he has labored on humanitarian help, governance, rule of legislation, restoration and peacebuilding in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda.

Previous to becoming a member of the United Nations, Mr. Williams labored with the USA Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID), CARE Worldwide and the Worldwide Rescue Committee.

Mr. Williams holds a grasp’s diploma in growth research from Princeton College and a bachelor’s diploma in electrical engineering from Harvard College, each within the USA.

He’s married and has two youngsters.