Sally Fegan-Wyles

Sally Fegan-Wyles is the Director of the UN Development Group Office (UNDG), responsible for guiding and supporting the UN's reform efforts at the country level. She is Policy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government in the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University, U.S.

She has been a UN staff member for 28 years, mainly working in Africa as UNICEF Representative (Liberia, Uganda, Zimbabwe) or UN Resident Coordinator (Tanzania). As Director of the UNDG, she is responsible for policy support to the UN Country Team and the UN Resident Coordinator in 134 countries, and for the implementation of the ongoing UN reform initiative, including the "One UN" approach being piloted in eight Countries. Some programs Sally pioneered include designing the first UN response to HIV/Aids in Uganda in 1985, leading the international community response to the Zimbabwe drought of 1991, and providing social policy advice to the new Museveni Government in Uganda, during and after the civil war. She is an Irish national and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and London School of Economics in economics and social planning.

External links

* [http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp Carr Center for Human Rights Policy ]
* [http://www.undg.org/index.cfm United Nations Development Group]