Kamal Kishore Appointed Special Representative Of UN Disaster Risk Reduction

• United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Kamal Kishore of India as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
• Currently Kishore is Head of Department of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in the rank of Secretary to the Government of India (since 2015).
• He succeeds Mami Mizutori of Japan at UNDRR.

ABOUT UNITED NATION OFFICE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION:

• The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), created in December 1999, is the successor to the secretariat of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
• It was established to ensure the implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.
• It is part of the United Nations Secretariat and its functions span the social, economic, environmental as well as humanitarian fields.
• UNISDR supports the implementation, follow-up and review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted by the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction on 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan.