Nick Dyer
DG Humanitarian and Development
Biography
Nick Dyer is the Director General, Humanitarian and Development at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). Nick is responsible for delivering the UK government’s International Development Strategy. Nick is also FCDO lead for global themes and programmes on: global health, education, gender and equalities, humanitarian, migration, conflict, stabilisation and mediation, international finance including the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).
Organisation
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Other
Speaker session
Session 3: Localisation – Equitable partnerships in practice
Auditorium
Nina Stuurman
Regional Emergency and Post Crisis Specialist for Middle East and North Africa
Organisation
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Speaker session
Session 3: Localisation – Equitable partnerships in practice
Auditorium
Noel White
Permanent Representative
Biography
Noel White is the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva. He took up duty in December 2022. Prior to his appointment to Geneva Mr White served in Brussels as Ireland’s Ambassador to the EU Political and Security Committee from 2017. From 2016 to 2017 he served as Director for International Security Policy at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin; from 2012 to 2016 as Ambassador to Australia, with parallel accreditation to New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands; and, as Director/Spokesperson at the Press Office from 2010 to 2012. Mr White also worked at the EU General Secretariat of the Council as a Political Administrator. Other posts include Director of Development Cooperation at Headquarters and Director of Institutional Affairs at Ireland’s Permanent Representation to the EU. Mr White graduated in law from Trinity College Dublin, and subsequently studied at King’s Inns where he qualified as Barrister-at-Law.
Organisation
the United Nations and other International Organisations at Geneva
Member State authority
Speaker session
Session 3: Localisation – Equitable partnerships in practice
Auditorium