Robert Piper

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Robert Piper is Assistant Secretary-General for Development Coordination for the United Nations. He was previously the Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the UN Coordinator for development and humanitarian activities in the occupied Palestinian territory. Robert has dedicated most of his working life to understanding and addressing the development dimensions of conflict-prevention and peace-building. He started his development career in 1989 with the Australian aid agency, AusAid, administering projects in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. He joined the United Nations in 1990 and has served in various field and Headquarters roles, including in Thailand, Cambodia, Fiji, Kosovo, and Nepal. Following the Indian Ocean tsunami, Robert served as chief of staff in the Office of the Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery (former US President Bill Clinton). In 2007, he served as the inaugural director of the UN's Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund. From March 2013 to June 2015, Robert was the UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator serving the nine countries of the Sahel region.