UN chief-designate names Chilean national as assistant

UN Secretary-General-designate Antonio Guterres has announced that he is appointing Fabrizio Hochschild of Chile as his assistant secretary-general for strategic coordination in the Executive Office, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Friday.

Reporting to the Chef de Cabinet, Hochschild will work closely with other members of the secretary-general-designate's team in ensuring coherence across the political, peacekeeping, development, humanitarian, human rights and rule of law portfolios, Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.

Gueterres is to replace Ban Ki-moon as the UN chief on Jan. 1, 2017.

Hochschild is currently serving as the deputy special representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), to which post he was appointed in July 2016, Dujarric said.

He previously served as deputy to the secretary-general's special adviser for the Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants.

From 2013 to 2016, he was the UN resident coordinator, humanitarian coordinator and resident representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Colombia. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the director of the Field Personnel Division in the United Nations Department of Field Support at UN Headquarters in New York.

From 2005 to 2009, he served as chief of field operations and technical cooperation in the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva.

Hochschild began his United Nations career in 1988 with the OHCHR in Sudan.

Born in 1963, he is married and has three children. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

source: Xinhua