Policy AdvisorUnited Nations Capital Development Fund
Sam has been working on international development with the United Nations since 2002. He is currently the senior policy adviser for strategy and analysis at the United Nations Capital Development Fund, which makes finance work for the poor.
Prior to this appointment, Sam was the senior policy adviser to the United Nations Resident Coordinator/Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia, helping to bridge divides between relief and longer-term development operations.
Previously, he worked as a speechwriter for the UNDP Administrator, and before that as an adviser on global public health for two United Nations Secretaries-General.
Sam has also served with UNDP in Yemen and supported efforts to recover from the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005.
He is from South Africa. He holds a Master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor’s degree (honours) in politics, philosophy, and economics from the University of Oxford. He is married with two daughters.
Eastern and Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, West and Central Africa
