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= Douglas Broderick =

Douglas Broderick is a national of the United States of America, currently serving as United Nations’ Resident Coordinator for Indonesia. He is serving as the Humanitarian Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative and UN Representative to ASEAN. He is the highest ranking UN official in the country.

Prior to his current assignment, Broderick served as UN Resident Coordinator in Cambodia.

Mr. Broderick has worked in international aid and development affairs since 1983. He has worked in senior management with United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in (former) Yugoslavia, Eritrea, Rwanda, and Djibouti, and served as World Food Programme Country Director in Bangladesh, China, DPR Korea, and Armenia.

He worked with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Iraq, the United States of America, Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, Egypt, and Thailand.

Career
Broderick’s international career started in 1983 when he joined Catholic Relief Services to manage projects in Thailand, in particular refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border. He later returned to Cambodia in 2008 to lead the United Nations including mine action efforts.

In 1984 he took up an assignment with Catholic Relief Services in Egypt, delivering food aid during the Ethiopian famine. Once this assignment was completed, he served two-and-a-half years providing development programs to the West Bank and Gaza.

In May 1991 he arrived in Baghdad, Iraq to open a CRS office following the Gulf War. He spent 13 months here, where he was responsible for a food distribution program serving more than 220,000 people throughout Iraq’s provinces. He became the longest-serving American in Iraq after the Gulf War.

Broderick joined United Nations’ World Food Programme in 1992 where he opened and managed an office in Eritrea after the country’s liberation.

He returned to Rwanda in 1994 as the third UN World Food Programme official to return to the country after the genocide. Broderick worked in Rwanda for 36 days straight as an Emergency Deputy Team Leader with WFP. Following the Rwanda genocide, Broderick was transferred to Belgrade, former Yugoslavia to deliver food aid during the Balkan conflict in 1995.

Broderick took up a posting in Armenia between 1996-1998 as the country was just developing its democracy following the Cold War years. His next assignment was DPRK during the hunger crisis where his leadership of the World Food Programme delivered food to 8 million people in DPR Korea.

Following his assignment in DPR Korea, he moved to China in 2000 to manage WFP’s food aid delivery to people in China’s southern and western provinces. He was responsible for managing the last-ever delivery of food aid from WFP worth $7.2 million. WFP and China agreed to phase out UN food aid in February 2001 because China was able to eliminate extreme poverty itself. From here he moved to Bangladesh, where he managed a large development program for two-and-a-half years coordinating a $105 million response, serving five million Bangladeshi people, including those hardest hit by Cyclone Sidr in 2007.

In April 2008, he was asked to take up the position of United Nations Resident Coordinator in Cambodia covering a range of humanitarian and development issues.

Douglas Broderick is currently serving as Resident Coordinator in Indonesia. Priorities for United Nations in Indonesia include achieving the SDGs, with a focus on climate change, harnessing big data for sustainable development, maternal health and tackling inequality.

Mr Broderick has written for national media to inspire national action on these issues. Example articles include ‘Indonesian Peacekeepers: Making Home Proud', ‘Stronger Women for a Stronger Nation’ and ‘Oceans for Fish, not Plastic '

Education
Mr. Broderick has a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Berkley and studied at universities in Spain and Mexico. Following his studies, in 1982 he spent one year travelling Asia. He completed the Senior Managers Program at Harvard University in 2004.

Personal Life
Douglas is married.