{"id":195755,"date":"2005-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195755"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:04:15","slug":"auto-insert-195755","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195755\/","title":{"rendered":"Sec Gen appoints Filippo Grandi of Italy as Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Deputy Commissioner-General – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS FILIPPO GRANDI OF ITALY AS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER-GENERAL<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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The Secretary-General has today appointed Filippo Grandi ( Italy) as Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA). <\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr. Grandi has been serving since May 2004 as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General responsible for political affairs at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵAMA).  Prior to that, and also in Afghanistan, he was Chief of Mission of the United High Commissioner for Refugees (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵHCR), a position he held from September 2001. <\/p><\/div>\n

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From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Grandi worked in the Executive Office of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵHCR in Geneva, as Special Assistant and then Chief of Staff.  Since 1988, when he joined Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵHCR, Mr. Grandi was posted in Sudan, then served in refugee programmes in Syria, Turkey and Iraq after the first Gulf War, led various emergency operations — in Kenya, Benin, Ghana, Liberia, the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa, Yemen and Afghanistan among others — and was Field Coordinator for Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵHCR and United Nations humanitarian activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the civil war in 1996-1997.  Between 1984 and 1987 he worked with different non-governmental organizations carrying out refugee programmes in Thailand and Italy. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Mr. Grandi, 48, graduated from the State Universities of Venice and Milan ( Italy), and from the Gregorian University in Rome ( Italy) with a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Secretary-General SG\/A\/940 BIO\/3685 PAL\/2029 Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS FILIPPO GRANDI OF ITALY AS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER-GENERAL OF Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ RELIEF AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES The Secretary-General has today appointed Filippo Grandi ( Italy) as Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2433,1587,1329],"document-source":[5352,1897,1817],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542,6541],"class_list":["post-195755","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-french-text","document-category-note","document-category-press-release","document-source-secretary-general","document-source-united-nations-department-of-public-information-dpi","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english","document-language-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/195755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/195755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=195755"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=195755"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=195755"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=195755"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=195755"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=195755"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=195755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}