Carlos Geha has been appointed as the Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Pakistan (ai) since November 2022. With over 15 years of experience in providing humanitarian assistance in diverse, complex emergency contexts around the world, he has extensive management knowledge in the humanitarian field. He led field work with humanitarian international organizations including; ICRC, WFP and recently OCHA in different emergency contexts in Senegal, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Chad, Yemen, Ivory Coast, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya and Syria which has provided him with extensive field experience in humanitarian organizations management.
Prior to his post in Pakistan, he was the Head of Office in OCHA ROMENA (ai) and the Head of Office for OCHA Jordan, where he established OCHA's office in Amman, Jordan at the onset of the Syria crisis and led the coordination and implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 2165 for humanitarian activities from Jordan to Southern Syria from 2013 to 2016. Mr. Geha holds a Doctoral Degree in Computer Networking and Statistical Simulation Analysis from the University of Sussex in Brighton. He is a native of Lebanon and speaks French, English, Arabic, and Spanish fluently.