Maher Nasser

Maher Nasser
Director of the Outreach Division, Department of Public Information, United Nations
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2011
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-moon
Preceded by	Eric Falt
Personal details
Born	(1962-10-19) October 19, 1962 Albireh, Occupied Palestinian territory

Maher Nasser is the Director of the Outreach Division in the United Nations Department of Public Information. He also serves as Chairman of the Publications Board. From April to 13 August 2012, he was Acting Head of the Department of Public Information.

A veteran of the United Nations System for more than 25 years, he has held various positions in Gaza, Jerusalem, Amman, Cairo, Vienna and New York. Prior to his current post, Mr. Nasser was the Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Vienna from July 2008 Prior to that, he served as Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Cairo from January 2006.

Mr. Nasser was the Chief of the New York Liaison Office for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) before joining the Department of Public Information at the UN. He also held different posts within UNRWA, in Vienna and Amman and worked in the area of public information at the United Nations Drug Control Programme in Vienna (now UNODC).

Mr. Nasser held different positions in two non-governmental organizations in Jerusalem before he joined the UN.

In October 1991, Mr. Nasser attended the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference and several sessions of subsequent bilateral negotiations in Washington, D.C., as the personal assistant to the head of the Palestinian negotiating team, Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi.

Mr. Nasser has a degree from Bir Zeit University in the West Bank, and a postgraduate diploma in business administration from the University of Warwick, in the United Kingdom. He is married with three children.

External Links

[1]Bringing the world into better focus

[2]Maher Nasser, Director of Outreach Division, DPI in NY, visited Vancouver