Robert Piper recently left the UN after 35 years leading UN country teams on four continents and serving in various leadership roles at headquarters. He is currently writing and advising on UN reform, protracted emergencies and crisis prevention as a senior fellow at NYU's Centre on International Cooperation and at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He is a member of the WEF's Global Council on Reimagining Aid.
Robert's most recent role at the UN was as the Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Solutions for Internal Displacement (2022-2024). He previously established and lead the new UN Development Coordination Office introduced under the 2018 reforms (from 2019 to 2022). Robert's UN operational roles have included extended assigments in the Sahel (Senegal), Nepal, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Kosovo, Cambodia, Thailand and the South Pacific (Fiji). He also served as Chief of Staff to President Clinton while the former US President served as the UN's special envoy for the recovery effort after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
