Martin Barber, OBE, is the former Director of the
United Nations Mine Action Service
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is a service located within the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations that specializes in coordinating and implementing activities to limit the threat posed by mines, explosive r ...
(UNMAS) at the
UN Headquarters
The United Nations is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States, and the complex has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1951. It is in the Turtle Bay, Manhattan, Turtle Bay neig ...
in New York from 2000 until his retirement from the UN in 2005. In 2006, he was made an OBE for services to de-mining.
He previously held various senior positions in the UN – including Chief of Policy Development and Advocacy at the
Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, New York; and Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo (1996 to 1998).
In 2014 he wrot
Blinded by Humanity: Inside the UN’s Humanitarian Operations which documents his experiences within the UN.
[I.B.Tauris Publishers, 2014 - www.ibtauris.com]
References
British officials of the United Nations
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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