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New Country Director Appointed
for UNDP Pakistan
'Pakistan
Times' National News Desk
ISLAMABAD: Mr. Alvaro
Rodriguez has joined UNDP Pakistan as the new Country Director. He brings
with him extensive experience in both the programmatic and operational
activities of UNDP and of the Asia and the Pacific region.
During his close to 17 years in UNDP, Mr. Rodriguez has served in Kenya,
China, Thailand, and UNDP Headquarters. Responsibilities over the years have
included, inter alia, management of UNDP’s Global Programme, oversight of
UNDP’s knowledge networks, establishment of the Bangkok Sub-Regional
Resource Facility (SURF), supervision of UNDP’s economic reform and poverty
alleviation portfolio in China and Kenya, and recovery initiatives in the
Horn of Africa. Mr. Rodriguez has pursued academic studies on economics and
political science in Chile, Canada, India and Australia.
Mr. Rodriguez’s responsibilities will include the oversight and day-to-day
management of the operational and programmatic activities of the UNDP
Country Office, from programme design to implementation and assessment of
results, and through these activities also support UN reform and ‘delivering
as one.
Furthermore, Mr. Jan Vandemoortele will now be focusing on his role as the
Resident Coordinator of United Nations in Pakistan under the UN Reforms
agenda.
Mr. Rodriguez will be joined shortly by his wife, Ms. Fainula Kurji-Rodriguez
and by their twin sons Sameer and Khalil age 12.
Of UNDP
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to knowledge, experience and resources to build a better life.
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development efforts in more than 160 countries. Its current priority is to
help all countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
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