Ross Mountain (New Zealand) has until recently served as Assistant Secretary General, Deputy UN Special Coordinator/ Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative for Lebanon He has held senior United Nations positions managing of complex humanitarian, reconstruction , development and peacekeeping operations in Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Sudan, Angola), Asia (Afghanistan), the Middle East (Lebanon ,Iraq/Jordan, Palestine), the Pacific ( Fiji, PICs) and the Caribbean(Haiti, Barbados, EC States). As the UN Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator he also served as the special humanitarian envoy of the Secretary-General for crises in Mozambique and East Timor.He is currently serving as Senior Advisor in Myanmar.