Hansjörg Strohmeyer

Chief of the Policy Development and Studies Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Mr. Strohmeyer is the Chief of the Policy Development and Studies Branch at the UN Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). As such he is the principal policy advisor to the Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Until December 2008 he also served as the Head of the Food Policy Support Team of the Secretary-General?s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis and oversaw the development of the Comprehensive Framework for Action and its political support by member states, including the G8 and other OECD countries.

From 2002-2006, Mr. Strohmeyer served as Chief of Staff to the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Mr. Strohmeyer served in several United Nations political and peacekeeping missions, including in Lebanon, Sudan, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, and Liberia. He has also extensively traveled to other field missions including Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, or Ethiopia.

Mr. Strohmeyer was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1962 and completed his academic education in Muenster, Germany, with degrees in law and political science. From 1991 to 1996 he served as trial judge in Duesseldorf, Germany. In 1997 and 1998 he was a member of the German delegation to the International Criminal Court preparatory committee proceedings and the Rome Conference.

He is the author of several reports of the Secretary-General, including on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, and of several academic publications, including 'Collapse and Reconstruction of a Judicial System: The United Nations Missions in Kosovo and East Timor', American Journal of International Law, January 2001.