Siddharth Chatterjee - United Nations Resident Coordinator in China.
Mr. Siddharth Chatterjee took office as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China on 16 January 2021 and presented his letter of credentials to the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, on 14 April 2021. The Resident Coordinator (RC), is the
highest ranking representative of the UN Development System. The RC is the
designated representative of - and reports to - the UN Secretary-General.
Mr. Chatterjee has more than 25 years of experience in international
cooperation, sustainable development, humanitarian coordination and peace and
security, which he has acquired at the United Nations and externally.
Most recently, he served as United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kenya
after holding other leadership positions across the Organization, including
Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Representative
of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Kenya, Regional Director for
the Middle East and Europe for the United Nations Office for Project Services
(UNOPS) in Denmark and Chief of Staff in the United Nations Assistance Mission
for Iraq (UNAMI). He also held leadership positions with the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Indonesia, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan and in
United Nations peacekeeping operations with the United Nations Mission in
Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH).
Mr. Chatterjee has also served in the Red Cross Movement (IFRC) as the
Chief Diplomat and Head of Resource Mobilization in Switzerland.
Before joining the United Nations in 1997, he was a commissioned officer
in the Indian Army. A 3 times TEDx speaker, he is a regular opinion contributor
on humanitarian and development issues for a range journals which includes Newsweek,
Los Angeles Times, the Hill, Reuters, Huffington Post, Forbes, CNBC Africa, CNN,
Al Jazeera, the Guardian as well as of late he has also published in mainstream
Chinese journals.
Mr. Chatterjee holds a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton
University in the United States of America and a bachelor’s degree from the
National Defence Academy in India.
Mr. Chatterjee is married, and they have a son.
