Daniel Endres

Daniel Endres is the Director for the Global Forum for Refugees at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Before his current function, he led the roll-out of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework endorsed by the UN General Assembly in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants in 2016. After which he served as Director of the newly created Division of Resilience and Solutions. Furthermore, Mr. Endres has also previously served as Director for UNHCR’s operations in Europe and as Director for External Relations.

Born in Switzerland, he has spent the majority of his UNHCR career in the field, notably as UNHCR’s representative in Iraq and as Deputy Representative in Afghanistan. In addition, he has worked in Pakistan, Poland, Yemen, Albania as well as in the North Caucasus, the Great Lakes region and West Africa. With a longstanding humanitarian track record, Mr. Endres comes from an international protection background and has extensive experience of managing emergency operations.

Mr. Endres holds a law degree from the University of Munich, Germany.