Rafeeuddin Ahmed served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for 21 years.
His various roles within the United Nations have included:
Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, Trusteeship and DecolonizationUnder-Secretary General and Chef de Cabinet for the Secretary GeneralUnder-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs in South-East AsiaSecretary of the Economic and Social CouncilUnder-Secretary-General and Senior Adviser to the Administrator of UNDPIn addition to his Secretary and Under-Secretary posts, he has served as:
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General to Secure Release of the Crew of the Russian Plane Force Landed in Kandahar by the Taliban Regime in AfghanistanSpecial Representative of the Secretary-General for the Laos-Thailand ConflictSpecial Representative of the Secretary-General for East TimorfSpecial Representative of the Secretary-General for CambodiaSpecial Envoy of the Secretary-General for MyanmarConvenor of the Secretary-General’s Task Force on Falkland Islands (Malvina)Principal Aide to the Secretary-General for the Iran Hostage CrisisAhmed is an alumnus of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where he studied in International Economics and International Law. He has also earned a MA in Political Science from the University of Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan.
Ahmed is married to Nighat Ahmed and is father to Zia Ahmed, also a Fletcher alumnus, and Kamaluddin Ahmed, a prominent lecturer at LUMS.
