Representative in Japan
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Johan Cels has been working with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in various functions and countries, e.g., in Hong Kong, northern Iraq and eastern Turkey, Bulgaria, Switzerland, and Ethiopia. He is currently working as a Representative in Japan, appointed as of September 2008. Prior to that, he was a Senior Policy Advisor (Peace and Security) in New York, focusing on Sudan, Chad and Somalia, as well as on post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding strategies. He also worked as a Project Leader for the Independent Commission on Human Security, co-chaired by Mrs. Sadako Ogata (former UN High Commissioner for Refugees) and Prof. Amartya Sen. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Notre Dame.
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