Gita Sabharwal of India appointed UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand

The UN has appointed India’s Gita Sabharwal, who has over two decades of experience in peace building and social policy, as the Resident Coordinator in Thailand. The UN Resident Coordinator is the highest-ranking representative of the UN development system at the country level. Resident Coordinators lead UN Country Teams and coordinate the world body’s support to countries in implementing the 2030 Agenda. Resident Coordinators are the designated representatives of the UN Secretary-General and report to the UN chief.

Who is Gita Sabharwal?

• Gita Sabharwal has done her masters in development management from the UK’s University of Wales and has authored several policy papers on South and South-East Asia.
• She was previously serving the United Nations as the Peacebuilding and Development Adviser in Sri Lanka for almost 7 years.
• Before serving at the United Nations, Sabharwal was the Deputy Country Representative of the Asia Foundation for the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organisation committed to improving the lives of people across Asia.
• She has also served as the Social Development Adviser for UK’s Department for International Development in India and Vietnam.
• Sabharwal has over 25 years of experience in peacebuilding, development, governance and social policy across five Asian countries including the Maldives.
• She has been involved in developing and managing programmes across sectors such as poverty reduction, civil society, social protection, gender equality, decentralisatoon and public enterprise reform.

About the United Nations

• United Nations is an international organization.
• The main objective of this organization is to facilitate international law cooperation, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights and world peace.
• United Nations was established on 24 October 1945, with the signing of the United Nations Charter of 50 countries.
• The United Nations was established by the winning countries of the Second World War with the aim of intervening in international conflict.

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