Michael Møller
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| 12th Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva | |
| Preceded by | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev |
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| Born | 9 November 1952 |
| Nationality | Danish |
Michael Møller, born 9 November 1952 (Denmark), is the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and current Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). He is also the Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Personal Representative to the Conference. He was appointed to these roles by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in November 2013 and was reappointed by Secretary-General António Guterres in February 2017 for another year. Michael Møller has over 38 years of experience as an international civil servant in the United Nations System, serving in different roles in New York, Iran, Mexico, Haiti and Geneva. Prior to his tenure as Director-General, he was the Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation from 2008 to 2011.
Born in Copenhagen in 1952, Michael Møller took courses in Political Science at the Institute for Political Science of the University of Aarhus, in Denmark. In 1976, he received his B.A. in International Relations at the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom. He earned his M.A. in International Relations in 1978 from Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in international organizations and the European Economic Community. He was enrolled at the European campus of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, in Bologna, Italy.
Michael Møller began his career in 1979 with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a Programme Officer and Legal Officer at its headquarters in Geneva. He was soon after appointed Assistant to the Director of the Division of International Protection. In 1982 he was promoted to Second Officer of the UNHCR Regional Office in New York, where he stayed until 1984. This period proved highly formative for his later career, having witnessed war and human suffering first-hand.
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