Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer was appointed Chief of OCHA’s Policy Branch in January 2007. He currently serves as Special Advisor to the acting Special Coordinator, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. He has more than 30 years of experience working in major emergencies including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Gaza, Kosovo, Liberia, Sudan and Timor Leste. He has also served as Head of the Secretariat of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Crisis, Special Advisor to the Emergency Relief Coordinator in Sudan; and principal coordinator of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. Prior to joining the UN in 1998, Strohmeyer was a trial judge in Germany and the head of the war crimes and justice system reform capacity at the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. During this time, he also served as a member of the German delegation to the International Criminal Court preparatory proceedings and the Rome Conference. Strohmeyer is also an author of several major UN reports and academic publications. He has Master’s degrees in law and political science from the University of Münster. Strohmeyer is the author of several UN reports and 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. A German national, Strohmeyer is fluent in English, German and French.