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I first worked for Save as part of the advance medical team to the Ethiopian famine in 1974. I returned in 1979 as Field Director - Bangladesh, then Head of Regional Office in East Africa. I came to HQ as Africa Director in 1983 later becoming regional director for East Africa. , I was seconded to the Foreign Office as their first conflict management adviser, working mainly on Africa but also on the development of pooled funds. I joined the UN in 2001 as Head of Policy for OCHA in New York, where I was extensively involved in the first major round of UN and Humanitarian reforms. In 2006, I was seconded from OCHA to the UN Mission in Sudan as Director of Civil Affairs covering both Darfur and South Sudan. I was appointed as the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator to Somalia in late 2008 until the end of 2012 during which time I was responsible for the coordination of the response to the famine of 2011. I moved to Afghanistan as the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General - often referred to as triple hatted and sometimes triple hated, as I also had the job of UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator. I retired from the UN in 2017 and now live in Pimlico in semi retirement as I am a Senior Research Associate with ODI and also do some work as a senior adviser to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, primarily on South Sudan.

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