Ross Mountain

Ross Stewart Mountain (born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1944) has spent most of his career in the service of the United Nations working on humanitarian, recovery, development and peacekeeping operations in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as well as assignments based in Geneva, Switzerland promoting non-governmental action and managing UN humanitarian operations.

Most recently he was based in the Executive Office of the Secretary General in New York as Assistant Secretary General and Senior Advisor on Cholera in Haiti. Previously he served as the UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative, UNFPA Representative and UN Deputy Special Coordinator in Lebanon and carried out special assignments to Myanmar, Afghanistan and Haiti .

He also served at the Assistant Secretary General level as Deputy Special Representative of the [Secretary General] of the United Nations in [the Democratic Republic of the Congo] for five years following his appointed by the Secretary General on 18 November 2004.

In DRC he also fulfilled the functions of Humanitarian Coordinator, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations Development System, and Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). As Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General he was one of the top three officials in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the DRC, MONUC, the then-largest UN mission in the world. He was responsible for managing the largest and most challenging UN election operation ever undertaken by the United Nations in 2006 in Congo, which brought Joseph Kabila to power. Provided by Wikipedia