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Biography

Mr. Raul Salazar is the Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction  (UNDRR) Secretariat for the Americas based in Panama.  Prior to this position, Mr. Salazar worked as Deputy Chief of Office in the UNDRR Regional Office for the Americas since 2011 and as a Programme Officer in UNDP Peru from 1997 to 2010, where he was the Cluster Manager in the area of Poverty and Crisis Prevention and Recovery. Mr. Salazar is an Economist by the Catholic University of Lima – Peru (1989), an MBA by the Universidad of Piura-IESE, Peru-Spain (1992) and holds a MSc in National Development and Project Planning by the University.

Raúl Salazar

Chief of the Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)