The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis

Biographies of
Advisory Panel
Nitin Desai
Member, Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, India;
Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Nitin Desai is a Distinguished Fellow at TERI and a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on
Climate Change in India. He was formerly Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs in
the UN at New York. He was the Deputy Secretary General of the 1992 Rio Summit and Secretary-
General of the 2002 Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development.
Jan Egeland
Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; UN Under-Secretary-General
for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2003-2006)
Jan Egeland currently serves as a Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Mr. Egeland was also appointed as the new director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
(NUPI) in September 2007. Prior to these appointments, Mr. Egeland was UN Under-Secretary-
General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from 2003 to 2006. Earlier in
his career, he served as State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990-1997).
He was also Director for the International Department of the Norwegian Red Cross, Head of
Development Studies at the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva, and a radio and television international
news reporter with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Jan Egeland studied Political Science
at the University of Oslo and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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