Yohannes Mengesha

Yohannes Mengesha currently serves as United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.
Previously, he was Director of the Office of the Deputy Secretary-General.
During his career at the United Nations, Mengesha served in a variety of capacities. In 1976, he joined the UN as project officer for the Eastern Caribbean Office of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Trinidad and Tobago. From 1980 to 1992, he held various posts in the Southern Africa Bureau of WFP. From 1992 to 1994, he was senior adviser at the Department of Humanitarian Affairs. He served as Regional Manager in the Eastern and Southern Africa Bureau of WFP between 1994 and 1996. Mengesha held the position of Director for Iraq Programme at the Department of Humanitarian Affairs from 1996 to 1998.
An Ethiopian national, Mengesha holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Master of Arts in Law from Cambridge University, United Kingdom.

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