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Kamal Kishore
Organisation: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Based in Geneva
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Head, UNDRR & Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
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Kamal Kishore is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Kamal Kishore is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. He brings to the position nearly three decades of experience in disaster risk reduction at the global, regional, national and local levels, having worked in government, the United Nations and civil society organizations.
He served as Head of Department of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) since 2015, leading the Group of 20 (G20) Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction under India’s G20 presidency.
Before joining NDMA, he 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.