🔒 Interview with Michael Moller, Chair, Diplomacy Forum, GESDA

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Mr Møller spent over 40 years as an international civil servant in the United Nations. He was appointed Chairman of the Diplomacy Forum of the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator, GESDA, in 2020.

From 2013 to 2019, Mr Møller served as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva as well as Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Conference of Disarmament.

He worked closely with the late UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as Director for Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary-General between 2001 and 2006, while serving concurrently as Deputy Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General for the last two years of that period.

Mr Møller also served as the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus from 2006 to 2008 and was the Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation from 2008 to 2011.

He began his career in 1979 with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and worked for the United Nations in New York, Mexico, Iran, Haiti, Cyprus and Geneva.

A Danish citizen, Mr Møller earned a Master’s degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, in its Italy’s Campus, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom.