John Hendra provides strategic advice on multilateral effectiveness and United Nations reform, development financing, gender equality, and leadership through his consultancy practice.
He served the United Nations for 32 years, most recently as Assistant Secretary-General (ASG), contributing to the Secretary-General’s reform reports and substantively supporting the negotiations that led to the General Assembly’s 2018 reform of the UN development system.
His previous roles include ASG and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women; UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Viet Nam, Tanzania, and Latvia; and United Nations Development Programme Director for Resource Mobilisation. He also serves as a part-time Senior Adviser and Consultant to the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.
