The United Nations has created a new appointment meant to increase international Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) action and cooperation, according to a U.N. statement Monday. Margareta Wahlström has been named to serve as assistant secretary general for DRR, as well as the special representative of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in implementing the Hyogo Framework.
Wahlström, of Sweden, has 25 years of experience in disaster management preparedness capacity building. She has held leadership positions in the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and is a member of the Swedish Commission on Climate Change and Development.
Read the U.N. press release.