Secretary-General appoints new Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Martin Mogwanja as one of UNICEF’s three Deputy Executive Directors. Mr. Mogwanja will replace Omar Abdi, who will take up the position of UNICEF’s Comptroller. Prior to taking up his new position Mr. Mogwanja, who is a Kenyan national, is UNICEF’s representative in Pakistan. In 2009, he was appointed United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for that country.
Responding to the announcement, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said, “I am very pleased with the Secretary General’s decision to appoint Martin Mogwanja to the post of Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF.”
Since joining UNICEF in 1977, Mr. Mogwanja had served as the organization’s Representative in Uganda and in the Democratic Republic of Congo and as its Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa.
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