UNMIL’s new DSRSG assumes duties here
DSRSG WaldemarVrey The newly appointed Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for Political and Rule of Law to Liberia, Mr. Waldemar Very assumed his duties in Monrovia on Monday, 02 November 2015.
According to a press release, Mr.Vrey previously served as Director for the Rule of Law and Security Institutions Group in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM). He brings to his new position a wealth of senior management, political, rule-of-law, regional coordination and security-sector reform experience in the United Nations, having served since 2004 in political and peacekeeping missions in Burundi, Sudan, South Sudan and most recently in Somalia, respectively. He also served as Commander of South African peacekeeping deployments and as Chief of Staff of the African Union Mission in Burundi.
Mr. Vrey is a 1987 graduate of the Stellenbosch University’s Military Academy following which he studied senior management at the Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business and total quality management at the University of South Africa.
