Ameerah Haq
Ameerah Haq is a Bangladeshi technocrat who served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Field Support, the highest-ranking Bangladeshi official at the United Nations, from April 2012 until her resignation in July 2014. Subsequently, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed her as one of the co-chairs of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations. Haq also served as the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Timor-Leste and Head of the United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor. Haq joined the UN in 1976.
In 2015, Haq was appointed as a member of the board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a private diplomacy organization whose mission is to help mitigate armed violence through dialogue and mediation.
Previously held positions at UN
1. Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor and Head of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste.2. Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General as well as United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan
3. Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan.
4. Deputy Assistant Administrator and deputy director, Bureau of Crisis Prevention & Recovery, at United Nations Development Programme Headquarters in New York.
Haq has 37 years of United Nations career service and is considered by US as a seasoned and skilled negotiator as well as consensus-builder.