Before arriving to the country, Mr. Anders Thomsen was the UNFPA Deputy Representative for India and Bhutan. He brings with him two decades of experience in development assistance, with a commitment to promotion of Human Right, Reproductive Health and Poverty Reduction. Prior to his assignment in India he worked at UNDP’s Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office, where he was Senior Portfolio Manager for $700 million dollar MDG Achievement Fund. At the same time, he led the development of new system for administration of Multi-Donor and Multi-Agency Trust Funds in the UN system. He has previously served as Resource Mobilization Specialist for UNFPA and as Programme Specialist in the Asia Pacific Division, where he covered South-East Asia during the Indian Ocean Tsunami crisis. Before joining UNFPA he spent six years with UNOPS both at Headquarters and in Eastern/Southern Africa where he focused on nationally implemented loans and grants from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Earlier Mr. Thomsen worked for several companies in the Private Sector. Mr. Thomsen has been stationed in various countries across three continents; Africa, Asia and Latin America. He holds a double major in International Development Studies and Business Administration. He is a national of Denmark.
