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Steven Allen - Director Regional , CEE/CIS

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Steven Allen

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Mr. Steven Allen, the Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, assumed this function on 14 April 2009.

Prior to the above assignment, Mr. Steven Allen has been serving as Director, Division of Human Resources in UNICEF New York Headquarters since November 2004.  In this capacity he has been responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight of UNICEF's human resources management and accountabilities.

Mr. Allen joined UNICEF in September 1977 as an Assistant Programme and Supply Officer in Khartoum, Sudan.  In May 1981, he was transferred on special assignment to Juba, Southern Sudan as Programme Officer. In July 1982 he transferred in the same capacity to Yangon, Myanmar.  In October 1985, Mr. Allen was assigned to Hanoi, Vietnam, as Senior Programme Officer in charge of UNICEF's health programmes.  From April 1989 to September 1992, he was Senior Programme and Planning Officer and Deputy Representative in Islamabad, Pakistan. He served as UNICEF Emergency Coordinator and UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator in Northern Iraq from September 1993 to November 1994. Mr. Allen served as UNICEF Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo from November 1994 to December 1996, followed by an assignment as UNICEF Representative for the Republic of Rwanda from December 1996 to May 1998.  

Mr. Allen served as UNICEF Special Representative for the Balkans, based in Sarajevo and Belgrade, from June 1998 to August 2002, where he led and managed UNICEF's advocacy and programme operations in countries of former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and FYR Macedonia, as well as Albania exceptionally during 1999 Kosovo crisis. Concurrently with this assignment Mr. Allen served as UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Resident Coordinator a.i. in Belgrade from August 1999 to March 2002.

From August 2002 to October 2004, Mr. Allen served as UNICEF Representative for the Republic of Indonesia. In this capacity he was responsible for the broad range of UNICEF programmes to improve the status of children and women in Indonesia.

Prior to joining UNICEF, from June to October 1974, Mr. Allen volunteered for OXFAM's famine relief programme in Tigre Province, Ethiopia. In June 1975 he joined the United Nations system as a UN Volunteer with the United Nations Development Programme in Juba, Sudan, and then as Logistics Controller with the World Food Programme in Juba from June 1976 to June 1977.

Mr. Allen is a national of the United Kingdom. In 1974 he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Politics from the London School of Economics, University of London, UK, followed by his Master of Science Degree in Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1993.

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