SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS DAVID NABARRO AS SPECIAL ENVOY FOR EBOLA
AND ANTHONY BANBURY AS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND HEAD OF
THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR EBOLA EMERGENCY RESPONSE (UNMEER)
United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment
of David Nabarro of the United Kingdom as his Special Envoy for Ebola
and Anthony Banbury as his Special Representative and Head of the United
Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER).
These
appointments follow the unanimous adoption of General Assembly
resolution 69/1 on 19 September, and the adoption of Security Council
resolution 2177 on the Ebola outbreak. They are made following close
consultations with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World
Health Organization.
In
his vital role as Special Envoy for Ebola, Dr. Nabarro will provide
strategic and policy direction for a greatly enhanced international
response and will galvanize essential support for affected communities
and countries.
Under
Mr. Banbury’s leadership, UNMEER, the new Mission, will provide the
operational framework and unity of purpose to ensure the rapid,
effective and coherent action necessary to stop the Ebola outbreak, to
treat the infected, to ensure essential services, to preserve stability
and to prevent the spread to countries currently unaffected.
Dr.
Nabarro and Mr. Banbury will work closely in support of the governments
in the region, and other partners, in pursuit of these critical
objectives.
Dr.
Nabarro has more than 30 years’ experience of public health, nutrition
and development work at country, regional and global levels, and has
held positions in non-governmental organizations, universities, national
Governments and the United Nations system. He serves as Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition
and Coordinator of the SUN Movement. Dr. Nabarro’s other recent
positions include Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza
from 2005 to 2014 and coordinator of the UN’s High Level Task Force on
Global Food Security from 2009 to 2014. Last month he was appointed as
Senior UN Coordinator for Ebola.
Mr.
Banbury brings more than 25 years of experience in political,
peacekeeping, and emergency management roles across several different
regions and organizations. He has served as Assistant Secretary-General
for Field Support since June 2009. He also served as Acting Deputy
Special Representative in MINUSTAH after the 2010 earthquake, and was
the Asia Regional Director for the World Food Progamme in Bangkok from
2003 to 2009, where he managed humanitarian relief and development
operations in 14 countries. He also was an integral part of the relief
operations for the 2004 tsunami and the 2008 Cyclone Nargis.
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