NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION PRESENTS LETTER OF NOMINATION TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Julian Fleet, the new Permanent Observer of the International Development Law Organization to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Fleet had been serving from September 2014 to June 2015 as a Senior Adviser in the Office of the Secretary-General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva. He has spent most of his career working at UNAIDS and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). He has also worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). His experience and training has been both in law and public health.

Mr. Fleet was Director of the Human Resources Management Department at UNAIDS in Geneva from July 2011 to December 2013, and Senior Adviser to the Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS in Geneva from August 2010 to July 2011. He was Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Secretariat, WHO in Geneva, from February 2008 to August 2010, and Chief of the HIV/AIDS Liaison Unit at UNDP in Geneva from May 2006 to February 2008. Mr. Fleet worked at UNAIDS in Geneva in various capacities from October 1998 to May 2006. He worked at UNHCR in various capacities from November 1989 to October 1998 in Geneva, Washington in the United States and Es-Showak in Sudan. At the beginning of his career, he worked as an adviser for the Ministry of Health of Swaziland and practised law in the United States.

Mr. Fleet was awarded degrees of Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, United States (1987), Master of Science from the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health in Amherst, United States (1979), and Bachelor of Arts from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States (1975). He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva since 2012.


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