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George Washington University. Columbia University; Yale University.
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Jordan Ryan
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He also serves as Director of the United Nations Development Programme Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery. Prior to his appointment to the current position, Ryan was Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator of the United Nations Mission in Liberia from 2006 until 2009. His 20 years of experience with the United Nations includes serving at different capacities in developing countries and in post-crisis setting.
He joined the United Nations Development Programme in China as Assistant Resident Representative in 1991.
Between 1993 and 1996, he worked as Senior Assistant Resident Representative and later as Deputy Resident Representative in Viet Nam. Between 1996 and 1997, he was Deputy Director of the Office of the Administrator in the Headquarters of United Nations Development Programme in New New York
From 1997 to 2001, he became Director of that office. Ryan graduated high school from the Webb School of California.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Yale University.
He also holds a Juris Doctor from George Washington University and a Master of Arts from Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. He was a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in 2001.
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