United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Senior UN official Siddharth Chatterjee of India as UN Resident Coordinator in China, with the host government’s approval.
Resident Coordinators (RCs) are the highest-ranking representatives of the UN development system at the country level. They lead UN teams to support countries to recover from Covid-19 pandemic through Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) policies.
On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, “Appointment follows confirmation from the Host Government, where he will take up his post in the middle of January of next year “. While making the announcement he said “We congratulate our friend Siddharth” and added that all the Resident Coordinators covering 162 countries and territories are among North-South balance.
More than 25 years of experience in international cooperation, sustainable development, humanitarian coordination and peace and security, Chatterjee has externally acquired at the UN. He has served as United Nations RC in Kenya after holding other leadership positions within the world organisation including Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Representative of the UN Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Kenya, Regional Director for the Middle East and Europe for the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Denmark and Chief of Staff in the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). He held other leadership positions well and had served as Chief Diplomat and Head of Resource Mobilization in International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Switzerland.