Stanislas 'Stan' Nkwain, a national of
Cameroon, is a senior
United Nations official working for the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
From 2003 to 2005, he was
Resident Representative
A resident representative is the head of a United Nations agency (such as UNDP, UNICEF, WHO) in a given country. As such, the resident representative has the same rank as an ambassador of a foreign state accredited to that country, under the Conv ...
of UNDP in
Bangui,
Central African Republic, which also entailed the functions of
Resident Coordinator A United Nations Resident Coordinator is the highest United Nations official and the chief of UN diplomatic mission in a country (except when there is a mission of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations or similar, in which case the Special Repre ...
and, after the country was declared a humanitarian emergency in 2005, that of
Humanitarian Coordinator. He was therefore the seniormost UN official in
Central African Republic.
He was notable for attracting attention to the humanitarian emergency in the country, which he called "a forgotten emergency".
References
Cameroonian officials of the United Nations
Living people
Cameroonian diplomats
United Nations Development Programme officials
Year of birth missing (living people)
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