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Daniel Don Nanjira
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
dn2143@columbia.edu
Biography:
Dr. Daniel D.D.C. Don Nanjira has over 33 years of successful academic and professional background as a Diplomat, International Civil Servant, Teacher, Researcher, Writer, Human Rights Advocate, and International Development Expert on the United Nations system.
Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Kenya to Italy, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta, and to FAO, IFAD, WFP and the World Food Council (WFC) with residence in Rome (1987-92), as well as to the UN Office at Geneva, and the International Organizations based in Geneva and Switzerland, and to UNIDO and the IAEA based in Vienna, Austria (1992-95).
Special Advisor to the Director-General of WHO on Health Policies for Africa (1995-97), as well as Kenya's Diplomat in Washington, D.C. covering the USA, Latin America and the Caribbean and the World Bank Group (Bretton Woods Institutions, 1974-78), and at the UN in New York (1978-84) and in Brussels (covering Belgium, Luxembourg, the European Economic Community and Commission (EEC) and the Lome Convention Negotiations of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries and the EEC (ACP/EEC) (1984-85) . Staff member of the United Nations Disaster Relief Office (UNDRO) New York, 1985-88, and of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) New York, 1997 present).