United Nations Secretary-Common António Guterres has appointed Nicole Flora Boni Kouassi of Côte d’Ivoire as the brand new Deputy Particular Consultant for the United Nations Built-in Workplace in Haiti (BINUH). She may also function Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator within the nation.
Ms. Boni Kouassi succeeds Ingeborg Ulrika Ulfsdotter Richardson of Sweden, whom the Secretary-Common thanked for her “devoted service and steadfast dedication” to the UN.
Bringing greater than 22 years of United Nations expertise, Ms. Boni Kouassi has constructed her profession throughout growth, peace and safety, and humanitarian work. Since 2022, she has served because the United Nations Growth Programme (UNDP) Resident Consultant in Niger, the place she additionally took on the position of Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator advert interim between 2023 and 2024. She beforehand led UNDP’s workplace in Burundi from 2019 to 2022 and held interim management as Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in 2021.
Her earlier profession consists of management roles as UNDP Deputy Resident Consultant in Djibouti and Niger, in addition to Senior UN Coherence Specialist in New York.
Ms. Boni Kouassi holds a Doctorate in Medication from Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan and a Grasp of Public Well being from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Faculty of Public Well being in the USA. She is fluent in each English and French, along with her native Baule.
