The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) appointed Kamal Kishore an Indian as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction and the head of UNDRR.
“The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) welcomed on 20 May the arrival of Mr. Kamal Kishore, who started his term as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Head of UNDRR,” the UNDRR announced in a statement.
According to the UNDRR statement, Kamal Kishore succeeds Mami Mizutori of Japan. On March 27, Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Kamal Kishore as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
Kamal Kishore has nearly 30 years of experience in disaster risk reduction at the global, regional, national, and local levels, having worked in government, the UN and civil society organisations, according to the UNDRR statement. Since 2015, he has been at the helm of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). His leadership extended to the G20 Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction during India’s G20 presidency. Kishore spent almost 13 years of his career in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), serving in Geneva, New Delhi, and New York.
Prior to the UNDP, he served as director of Information and Research and manager of the Extreme Climate Events Programme covering Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre in Bangkok from 1996 to 2002, read the statement.
