Filippo Grandi

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Filippo Grandi (2016)

Filippo Grandi (* 1957 in Milan ) is an Italian UN - diplomat and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees .

Life

Filippo Grandi studied Modern History at the University of Milan and Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome . He received an honorary doctorate from Coventry University and was a researcher at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut . He is an Honorary Associate at the Refugee Studies Center (RSC) at the University of Oxford .

Grandi has worked in international relations for over 30 years , 27 of them for the United Nations. From 1988 to 2004 he worked in various functions and countries for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), then with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), before becoming Deputy Commissioner General of the United Nations Aid Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Area in 2005 East (UNRWA) was Commissioner General from 2010 to March 2014. Grandi has worked for UNHCR in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and at its Geneva headquarters.

At the proposal of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon , the General Assembly elected Grandi as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . He succeeded António Guterres , whose term of office expired on December 31, 2015.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Oxford : Filippo Grandi , accessed November 12, 2015 (English)
  2. ↑ The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . unhcr.de. Retrieved September 15, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unhcr.de
  3. ↑ United Nations: General Assembly-elects Filippo Grandi as next UN High Commissioner for Refugees , November 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel : Successor to Guterres: Italian Grandi to become the new UN refugee commissioner , November 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Grandi, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian diplomat and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan