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Abou Moussa
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UNOCA was established on 1 January 2011 and inaugurated on 2 March 2011. He was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 11 March 2011. Having been serving the United Nations system for the past three decades, Moussa has collected extensive diplomatic, political and humanitarian experience.
Before his appointment with UNOCA, Moussa was the United Nations Secretary-General’s Principal Deputy Special Representative in Côte d’Ivoire from 2005 to 2011.
From October 2003 to September 2005, he served as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Humanitarian Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative for Liberia, a position he held after his stint as the Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Liberia (UNOL) from 2002 to 2003. Since he joined the United Nations in 1980, Moussa has held various positions in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), including as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Regional Coordinator in Côte d’Ivoire, Regional Director for West Africa and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative in Zambia.
Additionally, he had been posted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Geneva with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Moussa studied at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and at Sorbonne University in Paris.
