Parfait Onanga-Anyanga
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Parfait Onanga-Anyanga is the United Nations Special Representative for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). [1] Prior to this appointment of 7 January 2016 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Onanga-Anyanga served as the Acting Special Representative for the Mission.
Biographical Information
Mr. Onanga-Anyanga has extensive experience with the United Nations both in the field and at United Nations Headquarters New York. He has held the position of UN Coordinator for the response to the Boko Haram crisis since January 2015, and worked as the Secretary-General’s Representative in Burundi from 2012 to 2014. Mr. Onanga-Anyanga served in the Secretary-General’s cabinet as a Director from 2007 to 2012 under Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro. He also served in the Office of the President of the General Assembly from 2004 to 2007, under former Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, and former Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jan Eliasson. Mr. Onanga-Anyanga’s academic background includes studies in Political Science at l’Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and in Sociology at L’Université Omar Bongo in Libreville.