Our Representative
Grant Leaity
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A South African national, Grant Leaity was UNICEF's Deputy Director of Emergency Programmes from 2017 to 2022. During his tenure, he served as UNICEF's Senior Coordinator for the Ebola response in eastern DRC in 2019 and coordinated the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He was also seconded as UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Ethiopia in 2021.
Before this, Grant Leaity represented UNICEF in Ecuador (2014 to 2017) and coordinated the emergency responses at UNICEF's Regional Office for West and Central Africa (2010 to 2014).
Grant Leaity began his humanitarian career with Médecins Sans Frontières and holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
Our previous Representative
Edouard Beigbeder represented UNICEF in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2019 to 2022 before taking up a new position in Lebanon.
For more than 20 years, Edouard Beigbeder has worked to improve the rights of children and women across the world.
