The Ombuds Blog: UN World Food Programme Selects Next Ombuds

July 03, 2024

UN World Food Programme Selects Next Ombuds

Katya Melluish has been appointed the next WFP Ombudsman and Director. She follows Dolores Gómez-Morán, CO-OP, who served in an interim role and the prior permanent Ombuds, Gabrielle Kluck. From the WFP headquarters in Italy, Melluish will lead a team that provides Ombuds services to employees worldwide. She will serve an initial four-year contract.

Melluish comes to the position from the UN Food & Agriculture Organization, where she was the Ombuds for four years. She has worked at UN agencies for the past two decades, including as Chief of the Office of Staff Legal Assistance in New York and Legal Advisor to the Director-General in Nairobi. She earned an MA from the University of Oxford and LLM from Northumbria University. (LinkedIn.)

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