KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 23
United Nations Resident Coordinator for Mauritius and the Seychelles Lisa Singh presented her credentials to the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, on Tuesday.
Also present at the occasion were
Amanda Serumaga UNDP Resident Representative, Dr Anne Ancia WHO Representative and Celine Lemmel IOM Representative.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had, earlier in November, appointed Nepal's Singh as the UN Resident Coordinator in Mauritius and Seychelles, with the host Government's approval.
She had assumed office on 11 November.
Lisa Singh's profile as presented in UNSDG website
Singh brings more than over 25 years of experience in international development in Asia and Africa continents, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Vietnam.
Prior to her appointment as United Nations Resident Coordinator, Lisa Singh served as UNDP Resident Representative ad interim (ai) in Chad. She previously worked as UNDP Director of Programme and Deputy Resident Representative ai in Mali. She has significant senior policy expertise advising governments on issues of economic transformation, regional integration, sustainable development and disaster and climate risk resilience.
As Senior Economist, she led joint UN collective actions to support governments in the finalization of national development strategies (Afghanistan and Cameroon) and more recently with national socioeconomic response planning for COVID-19 (Chad).
Singh is adept in intergovernmental processes to include leadership roles in facilitating regional collaboration, knowledge brokering, south-south partnership and financing solutions. As Regional Environment Governance Manager in the Mekong Region based in Cambodia, she played a lead role strengthening riparian diplomacy and cross border capacity building to include work with the private sector and non-government organizations in the Asia Pacific Region.
She obtained her master's degree in Economics from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. She holds a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts (Economics and French) from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. She is multilingual with fluency in English, French and Nepali
