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Robert C. Orr

Dr. Robert C. Orr has served as the Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General since 2004. His responsibilities include running the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee and serving as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary-General on climate change, food security, global health, counter-terrorism and the UN reform agenda.
Robert C. Orr

Assistant Secretary General, United Nations

Dr. Robert C. Orr has served as the Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Planning and Policy Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General since 2004. His responsibilities include running the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee and serving as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary-General on climate change, food security, global health, counter-terrorism and the UN reform agenda.

Dr. Orr joined the United Nations from Harvard University where he served as the Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to this, he served as Director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of Global and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council in the White House.

Dr. Orr received his Ph.D. and M.P.A. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He speaks Spanish and Mandarin.

Dr. Orr is married and has two children.