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SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS DAVID NABARRO

OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE 2030 AGENDA
FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of David
Nabarro of the United Kingdom as Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. The Special Adviser will work with Member States and other relevant
stakeholders to galvanise action on implementation of the Agenda. He will also oversee the
Secretary-Generals special initiatives, e.g. Every Woman Every Child.
Dr. Nabarro has more than 30 years experience of public health, nutrition and development
work at country, regional and global levels, and has held positions in non-governmental
organizations, universities, national Governments and the United Nations system.
Since September 2014, Dr. Nabarro has served as Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on
Ebola, providing strategic and policy direction for the international response. From 2005 to
2014 he was Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza. From 2011 to 2015 he
served as Coordinator of the Movement to Scale Up Nutrition. Since 2009 he has been the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition, a position
he will continue to hold.
Dr. Nabarro started his career in the United Kingdom National Health Service. He then
worked in child health and nutrition programmes in Iraq, South Asia and East Africa. Since
1990 he served as Chief Health and Population Adviser to the United Kingdom Overseas
Development Administration. In 1997, he became Director for Human Development in the
Department for International Development.
In 1999, Dr. Nabarro joined the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead the Roll Back
Malaria initiative. He was appointed as an Executive Director in 2001 and in 2003 became
head of WHOs Department for Health Action in Crises.
Dr. Nabarro was born in London and qualified as a physician in 1973.
New York, 3 December 2015

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