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UN Secretary General Guterres appoints Shombi Sharp as a UN resident coordinator in India

UN Secretary General Guterres appoints Shombi Sharp as a UN resident coordinator in India
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The United Nations: Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres has appointed Shombi Sharp of the United States as the UN population coordinator in India with the approval of the host government, according to a statement.
Sharp has “devoted more than 25 years of his career to promote international inclusive and sustainable development, bringing the experience he has obtained at the United Nations and external to this new position”, the United Nations said in a statement issued on Monday.
In the world organization, he recently served as the UN population coordinator in Armenia.
Sharp has held several leadership positions in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), where the resident representatives in Armenia, representatives of residents in Georgia, Deputy Director of State in Lebanon, the leader of the HIV / AIDS practice team for UNDP Europe and the Commonwealth of State Independent countries in the Russian Federation, program managers for West Balkans in New York and Resident Representative Assistants at the Russian Federation.
Before joining the United Nations, Sharp began his career in developing with International Non-Profit Care International in Zimbabwe, the statement said.
He is a writer of work published in the health economics and is a US agent for international development ‘USAID)’ Champion Policy ‘and candidates for UNDP administrator awards.
Sharp holds a Postgraduate Diploma in HIV / AIDS management from South African National Medical University and Stellenbosch University in South Africa; Economic Masters degree from Colorado University and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas.
Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for Secretary General, said that the briefing that the coordinator of the population led work “Our UN teams in the field, including our sustainable support for the National Covid-19 response plan to recover better for sustainable development purposes (SDGs.
) ” “This Senior UN official is also a representative of the Secretary General for Development at the State Level,” he said.

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