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New head on board at the UN September 5, 2006: The United Nations System welcomed on board a new UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative. Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco takes over from his predecessor Mr. John Hendra following his departure from Tanzania to assume a new position as Resident Coordinator for the UN in Vietnam. For the past 23 years, having spent most of his entire professional career working with the UN, Mr. Fernandez-Taranco brings with him diverse experience in UN Operations, policy support, advocacy and resource mobilization. Mr. Fernandez-Taranco joins the UN system in Tanzania from the Regional Bureau for the Arab States (RBAS) UNDP, New York office, where he worked as the Deputy Assistant Administrator & Deputy Regional Director. At RBAS, he was responsible for supporting and ensuring all aspects of country office performance in 18 of the Arab States countries including among others Somalia, Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Mr. Fernandez-Taranco further brings a great understanding to the position, in UN Interagency and donor coordination in support of Post Conflict Peace Building Strategies, Needs Assessments and Multi Donor Trust Funds for crisis countries. Prior to that Mr. Fernandez-Taranco has worked as the Resident Representative, UN Resident Coordinator and Deputy Representative of the Secretary-General in Haiti (1998-2001). He has also served as Deputy Special Representative of the Administrator for the West Bank & Gaza Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian people (PAPP), Jerusalem (1994-1998). Mr. Fernandez-Taranco previous assignments include working as the Country Officer, Africa Division, United Nations Capital Development Fund, in New York (1989-1994). Earlier, he held the position of Country Officer, Latin America and Caribbean Division for the World Food Programme, Rome, Italy (1985-1989). Mr. Oscar Fernandez-Taranco began his career in the UN in 1983 when he joined the United Nations Capital Development Fund, Benin as a UN Volunteer in the position of Field Implementation Officer, where he was in charge of administrative backstopping and monitoring of rural infrastructure development projects. Mr. Fernandez-Taranco is a national of Argentina. He holds a Masters Degree in Urban/Regional Economic Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is married and has two children. For further information please contact our Public Information Unit. |
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