Interview with Sir John Holmes, Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
When you meet a British “Sir”, you expect an elderly, grey-haired, avuncular gentleman and not a nice, young, friendly person like Sir John. His colleagues in the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have, by the way, put the “Sir” aside, so Sir John is now just John… Before taking up his new position at the United Nations, Sir John was a career British diplomat who had had postings in Russia, the UN Mission in New York…
