Mr. Richard Dictus

Biography:

Coordinator to Egypt in January 2017 after having served as the Executive Coordinator of the UN Volunteers (UNV) program. Dictus joined the UN in South Yemen in 1987. He subsequently served in different UNDP capacities in Sudan, Lesotho, Bangladesh, and Pakistan in environmental management, rural development, micro finance, human rights, and disaster management. At the UNDP Headquarters in New York, he worked as Management Advisor (Deputy Chief) with UNDP�s Bureau of Management. He went on to be Deputy Director of Human Resources. Returning to the field, Dictus was the UN Resident Coordinator Office (UNRCO) and UNDP Resident Representative in Fiji and in Malawi. He graduated from the Technical University of Twente in the Netherlands with a Master�s Degree in Public Administration and Development Studies. He furthered his education at Harvard /MIT, Cornell and the UN Staff College.

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