China News Service, Beijing, December 16 (Reporter Liu Xu and Bo Wenwen) China News Service reporter learned on the 16th that the UN Secretary-General Guterres appointed Siddharth Chatterjee from India as the new UN station in China on the 15th local time. Coordinator.
He will arrive in Beijing at the end of January 2021 and formally take up his new duties after submitting a letter of appointment to the government.
According to reports, Chang Qide graduated from the Indian National Defense Academy and holds a master's degree in public policy from Princeton University. He has 25 years of work experience in the fields of international cooperation, sustainable development, humanitarian coordination, and peace and security. Served in institutions and other international organizations, often publishing articles on humanitarian and development issues in the media and periodicals.
Chang Qide is currently the United Nations Coordinator in Kenya. Prior to that, he served successively as UNDP and UNFPA representatives in Kenya, UNOPS Regional Representative in the Middle East and Europe, and Office Director of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq.
He has also held leadership positions in UNICEF offices in Indonesia, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, and worked in the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In addition, Chang Qide served as Chief Outreach Officer and Head of Resource Mobilization Department in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Before joining the United Nations in 1997, he served in the Indian Special Forces.
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