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Secretary-General appoints Robert Glasser of Australia as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction - UNISDR

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New York - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointed Robert Glasser of Australia as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

Mr. Glasser will succeed Margareta Wahlström of Sweden, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her dedication and excellent leadership of UNISDR over the past seven years.

Mr. Glasser is currently Executive-in-Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), where he has focussed on the humanitarian impacts of climate change. He moved to GCSP earlier this year from CARE International, where he had been Secretary General since 2007.

He brings to UNISDR over 20 years of experience in disaster response and fighting poverty. Prior to joining CARE International, he was Chief Executive of CARE Australia, overseeing aid and humanitarian relief programmes in Cambodia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and the Middle East. He was previously Assistant Director General of the Australian Government aid programme.

Born in 1959, Mr. Glasser holds a PhD in International Relations (Strategic Studies) from the Australian National University. He is married with three children.

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