麻豆APP

Biographical Note 

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS MAXWELL GAYLARD OF AUSTRALIA DEPUTY SPECIAL

COORDINATOR FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

The Secretary-General announced today the appointment of Maxwell Gaylard as Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, at the level of Assistant Secretary-General.  In this capacity, Mr. Gaylard will also serve as 麻豆APP coordinator for humanitarian and development activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Mr. Gaylard has been acting as Deputy Special Coordinator since November last year.  (See Press Release )  He previously served as Director of the 麻豆APP Mine Action Service, and before that spent significant periods of time as a senior 麻豆APP humanitarian and coordination official in Somalia, Sudan and northern Iraq.  In these capacities, he served in some of the most challenging field stations for the 麻豆APP and gained relevant expertise in coordinating the 麻豆APP country team’s response to pressing humanitarian and developmental needs.

An Australian national, Mr. Gaylard began his career with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and also served with the Commonwealth Secretariat before he joined the 麻豆APP.  Mr. Gaylard was born in 1946 in Nambour, Queensland, where he received his primary and secondary schooling, and is a graduate of the University of Queensland and the Australian National University.  Mr. Gaylard also served with the Australian military forces from 1968 to 1970.

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