Sigrid Kaag
| Sigrid Kaag | |
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| United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon | |
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In office 17 January 2015 – Present |
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| Preceded by | Derek Plumbly |
| Head of the joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations mission for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons | |
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In office 16 October 2013 – September 2014 |
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| Born | 1961 Rijswijk, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Children | 4 |
Sigrid A.M. Kaag (born 1961) is a Dutch diplomat working for the United Nations. Since January 2015, she serves as the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL), following Derek Plumbly.
Prior to that she served as Under Secretary-General and Special Coordinator of the United Nations – Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (UN-OPCW) Joint Mission to eliminate the declared chemical weapons programme of the Syrian Arab Republic between October 2013 and September 2014. Until her mission in Syria she was employed as Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy of the United Nations Development Programme.
Kaag earned a Master of Philosophy in International Relations on the Middle East from the University of Exeter; she also has a Master in International Relations from St Antony's College, University of Oxford. She also received foreign relations training at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague. After her studies Kaag worked for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Head of the UN Political Affairs Department. Later she worked for Royal Dutch Shell in London, United Kingdom.
She started working for the United Nations in 1994 and from 1998 to 2004 she was Chief of Donor Relations for the International Organization for Migration, and Senior Programme Manager with the External Relations Office of UNRWA. Working in the Middle East she was responsible for areas as the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. From 2007 to May 2010 she was Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa for UNICEF. In May 2010 she was appointed Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy of the United Nations Development Programme. Between October 2013 and September 2014, she was head of the joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations mission for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. On 1 December 2014, the UN Secretary General announced that Kaag would become the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL), succeeding Sir Derek Plumbly.
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