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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of 16 members to the Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), including four alternates, on 31 October 2008.  Seven of the 16 members have previously served on the Advisory Group.   Their re-nomination helps to ensure the continuation of the institutional memory of the Advisory Group, one-third of which should rotate every year.

Members of the Advisory Group serve in their individual capacity, and not as representatives of their countries or governments. They include government officials from Member States, including contributing and recipient countries, representatives of humanitarian non-governmental organizations, and academic experts. 

 

  CERF Advisory Group 2008-2009

Front row (left to right)   Ms. Ursula Muller (Germany), Ms. Elisabeth Rasmusson (Norway), Ms. Yoka Brandt (the Netherlands - Chairperson), Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. John Holmes, Ms. Marika Fahlen (Sweden), Dr. Jemilah Mahmood (Malaysia). Back row: Mr. George Amoo (Ghana), Ambassador Park Soo-Gil (Republic of Korea),  Mr. Koji Tsuruoka (Japan), Ms. Diane Jacovella (Canada), Mr. Tom Arnold (Ireland), Ambassador George Nene (South Africa), Mr. Mati Raidma (Estonia), Mr. Moazzam Malik (United Kingdom – vice chair), Mr. Steve O’Malley (Chief: CERF Secretariat)

 

    

Members

Ms. Diane Jacovella      
Vice-President, Sectors and Global Partnerships Branch, CIDA, Canada

Ms. Ursula Muller      
Head of Division, Task Force for Humanitarian Aid, Federal Foreign Office of Germany

Mr. George Isaac Amoo      
Former National Coordinator, National Disaster Management Organization of Ghana

Mr. Koji Tsuruoka      
Director-General, International Legal Affairs Bureau of Japan

Dr. (Ms.) Jemilah Mahmood   
President, Malaysian Medical Relief Society, Malaysia

Mr. Rubem Hofliger Topete     
Director-General, Natural Disaster Fund Coordination, Ministry of the Interior of Mexico

Ms. Yoka Brandt      
Director-General International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Ambassador Park Soo-Gil     
President, UN Association of the Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea

Ambassador Sipho George Nene    
Deputy Director-General of Multilateralism, Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa

Ambassador Juan Pablo De Laiglesia
Director, Agency for International Cooperation and Development of Spain

Ambassador (Ms.) Marika Fahlen    
Special Envoy, Horn of Africa, Sweden

Mr. Moazzam Malik     
Director, UN, Conflict, and Humanitarian Division, DFID, United Kingdom 


Alternates 

Mr. Tom Arnold      
Chief Executive, Concern Worldwide, Ireland

Mr. Ali Daud Mohamed     
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of State for Special Programmes of Kenya

Ms. Elisabeth Rasmusson     
Secretary-General, Norwegian Refugee Council, Norway

Mr. Mati Raidma      
European Parliamentarian, Estonia 

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[Last Update: 3 November 2008]

 

 

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