{"id":7345,"date":"2015-09-14T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71development\/?page_id=7345"},"modified":"2016-09-13T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T16:14:36","slug":"biography-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/pga-team\/biography-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Communications Director and Spokesperson<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\"DanDan Thomas leads work on communication and external relations within the Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly. He also serves as Spokesperson for the President.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Office for the 70th<\/sup> session in September 2015 at the request of President Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark, Dan headed up communications, mobilization and outreach for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-General\u2019s Climate Change Team within the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. In 2014 he led communications for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary General\u2019s Climate Summit for which he won an award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A former journalist with Reuters and BBC Television News, Dan joined Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF as a multimedia producer in 2000. In 2008, he left the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ system to join the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) \u2013 a public-private global health partnership based in Geneva \u2013 eventually becoming Acting Director of Communication.<\/p>\n

He has travelled to more than 50 countries and lived and worked in Cardiff, Hong Kong, London, Nairobi, Geneva and New York.<\/p>\n