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SUMMARY:CGHR Practitioner's Series with Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE
  - Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brien KBE\, former United Nations Under-Secret
 ary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
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DESCRIPTION:The Centre of Governance and Human Rights is pleased to host S
 ir Stephen O’Brien\, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for H
 umanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator\, as part of the CGHR
  Practitioner Series. All are welcome to attend. The talk and Q&A will be 
 followed by drinks with the speaker.\n\n*The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen O’Brie
 n KBE* is a British internationalist\, politician\, diplomat\, industriali
 st and lawyer who completed his term as United Nations Under-Secretary-Gen
 eral for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator towards the
  end of 2017.\n\nIn 2004 he founded\, and then served as first chairman\, 
 of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Dis
 eases. He has also been Co-founder/Chairman of the leading NGO\, Malaria C
 onsortium\, Vice-President/Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Me
 dicine\, and is now Chair of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium\, Gl
 obal Advocate for the UN/WHO’s inter-agency Roll Back Malaria Partnershi
 p. He was appointed to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Privy Council in
  2013.\n\nAfter serving as a Conservative MP and in various shadow ministe
 rial roles\, he was appointed the Prime Minister’s Envoy and UK Special 
 Representative to the Sahel in Africa\, and later on United Nations Emerge
 ncy Relief Coordinator\, leading the Office for the Coordination of Humani
 tarian Affairs. \n\nAs the world’s leading advocate for crisis-affected 
 people\, he argued for compliance and accountability under International H
 umanitarian law and unimpeded access to people in need. His responsibiliti
 es included oversight of all UN humanitarian operations globally\, and lea
 dership of coordination mechanisms between UN agencies and other partners.
  In recognition of his leadership and achievements in humanitarian and dev
 elopment work\, Stephen O'Brien was awarded a Knighthood (KBE) in June 201
 7.\n\nBorn in Tanzania\, Sir Stephen was educated in Kenya and the United 
 Kingdom\, where he attended Emmanuel College\, Cambridge University and qu
 alified as a lawyer.\n\n*About the CGHR Practitioner Series*: For those ho
 ping to pursue a career in the ‘Third Sector’\, especially amidst a br
 oad range of organisations and agencies whose mandates can be loosely coll
 ected under the umbrella headings of ‘Human Rights and Social Justice’
 \, ‘Conflict and Security’ or ‘Development and Humanitarian Aid\,’
  the terrain can be difficult to navigate. A sound academic training\, the
  kind provided by Cambridge University\, is important but certainly not en
 ough to prepare students for the transition into working in this sector. T
 hrough a mixture of substantive discussion\, personal reflection and pract
 ical advice\, the CGHR Practitioner Series brings together high‐level ex
 perts working in these fields and creates a forum in which students and re
 searchers can listen and ask questions about what this work actually invol
 ves\, seek out reflections from experience on the dilemmas and challenges 
 faced\, and probe the skill set and experience needed to forge a career in
  these fields.
LOCATION: Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Road\
 , Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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