Martin Griffiths

Martin Griffiths (2018)

Martin Griffiths (born July 3, 1951 ) is a British professional diplomat who has been the United Nations Special Representative for Yemen since February 16, 2018 .

He studied philosophy , religion , oriental studies , African studies and law . He holds a Bachelor's degree from the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex and a Masters from SOAS University of London . He is a lawyer at Lincoln's Inn (UK), Oregon State Bar , and Federal Bar (USA).

Career

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From 1974 to 1975 he volunteered at UNICEF in Vietnam and Laos .
From 1976 to 1978 he was a lawyer in Portland, Oregon .
From 1978 to 1981 he was employed by UNICEF's international programs in Sri Lanka .
From 1979 to 1980, after the genocide in Cambodia , he was employed on the Thai-Cambodian border.
From 1981 to 1983, at the beginning of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan , he was a UNICEF program officer in Peshawar ( Pakistan on the Afghan border).
From 1985 to 1987 he was press officer at the British embassy in Pretoria .
From 1989 to 1991 he directed the overseas planning of Save the Children .
From 1991 to 1994 he was the managing director of ActionAid .

From 1994 he was again employed at the United Nations as Director for UN humanitarian affairs in Geneva. Later, his places of employment were: New York City , the Great Lakes region and finally in the Balkans, where he co-founded the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo . From December 23, 1996 to March 14, 1997 he was Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region and Director of Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations Office in Geneva . From 1998 to 1999 he was Deputy UN Emergency Aid Coordinator , Sérgio Vieira de Mello, at UN Headquarters in New York City .

From 1999 to 2010 he was the founding director of the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva . Under Griffith's leadership, the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue broke new ground in peace mediation. In Indonesia, Griffiths achieved what was seen as an impossible task in the mediation industry. Like some governments that fight a conflict with armed insurgents, the Indonesians have always refused to allow outsiders to interfere in what they believed to be a domestic matter. In addition, she did not want the rebels to receive international recognition through high-quality mediation. From 2012 to 2014 he was advisor to the United Nations and Arab League's special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi . From 2016 through September 2018, Griffiths was the first Executive Director of the European Institute of Peace .

On February 16, 2018 he was named "United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen" by António Guterres .

Individual evidence

↑ Special Envoy ( en ) January 25, 2019. Accessed June 13, 2019.
↑ United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , Department of Humanitarian Affairs, DHA News, 1993, p. 6 [1] [2] [3]
↑ Diplomatic Corps and Consular, Trade, and Other Foreign Representatives in Pakistan, The Ministry, 1982, [4]
↑ South Africa: In Brief British embassy denies evacuation plans (Text) The British embassy has denied that there are emergency plans to airlift people out of South Africa. Spokesman Martin Griffiths has denied reports that London has contingency plans to evacuate up to one million Britons and South Africans eligible for British nationality in case of severe racial strife. He says after a weekend report about such see: Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, 1987, p. 9
^ The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who 1998, p.890
^ Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region , [5] [6] [7]
↑ Who is Martin Griffiths, the British mediator bringing formidable experience to Yemen envoy role? ( en ) Retrieved June 13, 2019.
^ Harriet Martin, Kings of Peace Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peacemaking, p. 65
↑ Special Announcement: Michael Keating as new Executive Director | European Institute of Peace ( en )
↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , January 16, 2019, "Martin Griffiths should bring peace to Yemen"

predecessor	Office	successor
Sérgio Vieira de Mello	UN-Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region December 23, 1996 to March 14, 1997	Pierce Gerety
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed	United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Since February 16, 2018

personal data
SURNAME	Griffiths, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd July 1951

[1] Special Envoy ( en ) January 25, 2019. Accessed June 13, 2019.

[2] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , Department of Humanitarian Affairs, DHA News, 1993, p. 6 [1] [2] [3]

[3] Diplomatic Corps and Consular, Trade, and Other Foreign Representatives in Pakistan, The Ministry, 1982, [4]

[4] South Africa: In Brief British embassy denies evacuation plans (Text) The British embassy has denied that there are emergency plans to airlift people out of South Africa. Spokesman Martin Griffiths has denied reports that London has contingency plans to evacuate up to one million Britons and South Africans eligible for British nationality in case of severe racial strife. He says after a weekend report about such see: Summary of World Broadcasts: Non-Arab Africa, British Broadcasting Corporation. Monitoring Service, 1987, p. 9

[5] The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who 1998, p.890

[6] Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Great Lakes Region , [5] [6] [7]

[7] Who is Martin Griffiths, the British mediator bringing formidable experience to Yemen envoy role? ( en ) Retrieved June 13, 2019.

[8] Harriet Martin, Kings of Peace Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peacemaking, p. 65

[9] Special Announcement: Michael Keating as new Executive Director | European Institute of Peace ( en )

[10] Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , January 16, 2019, "Martin Griffiths should bring peace to Yemen"