Jean-Marie Garelli

Jean-Marie Garelli is the Deputy Representative for Operations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ankara, Turkey since September 2016. He started working with UNHCR in 1994 and since then has been posted to several countries including Mauritania, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Eritrea, Serbia and Chad. From 2006 to 2010 he worked in UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva on the Desk covering Southeast Asia. Between 2011 and 2013, he was seconded to the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in New-York and worked in the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), a United Nations pool fund aimed at providing financial support to respond to emergencies.In September 2013, he was appointed Assistant Representative (Programme) in the UNHCR Representation for Lebanon, in Beirut, where he has been serving until September 2016. He is graduated in Political Science, in Contemporary History and in International Law.