Catherine Pollard

Catherine Pollard

Catherine Pollard (born in 1960 in Georgetown, Guyana) currently serves as United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management. She was appointed to the position by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in April 2008.

Prior to her current appointment, Pollard serves as Chief of Staff in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. In this capacity, she was responsible for implementing the ongoing restructuring in the Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and of Field Support. She also helped the Secretary-General’s task force to streamline management practices, including human resource management.

Before this, she was Director of the Peacekeeping Financing Division in the Department of Management. In this capacity, she implemented the Secretary-General’s reforms to enhance the strategic focus of budgets and to streamline the budget process.

Pollard also held a variety of assignments in the area of financial and human resource management of the United Nations Volunteers Programme, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia.

Pollard obtained her master’s degree in accounting from the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.


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