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LIBERIA: SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS DEPUTY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE December 30, 2005
Kizza Hajarah
(SomaliNet) Jordan Ryan of the United States has been appointed as the Deputy Special Representative for Recovery and Good Governance for Liberia to the UN. This is with effect from January ist 2006.
He will also serve as the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Liberia. Currently, he is working as the United Nations Resident Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Viet Nam.
Mr. Ryan also served as the Director of the UNDP Office of the Administrator in New York from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Ryan also served as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative and Senior Assistant Resident Representative in Viet Nam. He was also the UNDP Assistant Resident Representative in China.
Prior to his carrer with the UN, he worked as an attorney in New York and California.
He was born on 29 August 1950. He holds a master’s degree in international and public affairs from Columbia University.