Mr. Kamal Kishore of India - Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction
IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced
today the appointment of Kamal Kishore of India as Assistant
Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for
Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
(UNDRR).
He succeeds Mami Mizutori of Japan, to whom the
Secretary-General is grateful for her service and commitment to the
Organization. The Secretary-General also wishes to extend his
appreciation to the UNDRR Director, Paola Albrito,
who will continue to serve as Acting Special Representative until Mr. Kishore
assumes his position.
Currently Head of Department of the National Disaster Management
Authority (NDMA) in the rank of Secretary to the Government of India (since
2015), Mr. Kishore brings to the position nearly three decades of experience in
disaster risk reduction, climate action and sustainable development at the
global, regional, national and local levels, having worked in government, the
United Nations and civil society organizations.
As part of India’s Group of 20 (G20) presidency, he led the G20
Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction. He also contributed to the
development of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, launched by
the Prime Minister of India at the Climate Action Summit in 2019.
Before joining NDMA, Mr. Kishore spent nearly thirteen years
with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Geneva, New
Delhi and New York. During this time, he led global advocacy to
integrate disaster resilience concerns in the Sustainable Development Goals and
a global team of disaster risk reduction advisers to support
UNDP programme countries.
Prior to 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, and as an
Architect at the Action Research Unit for Development from 1992 to 1994 in New
Delhi, where he worked on post-earthquake reconstruction projects.
Mr. Kishore holds a Master of Science in Urban Planning, Land
and Housing Development from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok,
Thailand, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Roorkee, India. Mr. Kishore is fluent in English and
Hindi.
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