Our Team in Jamaica

Dr. Dennis Zulu serves as the United Nations Resident Coordinator for the Multi-Country Office in Jamaica, with oversight responsibility for the coordination of UN development work across Jamaica, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Turks and Caicos, and the Cayman Islands.

A national of Zambia, Dennis Zulu has over 25 years of experience in international development, the private sector, and academia. Immediately prior to his current appointment, he held the position of Director of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean, where he provided strategic programmatic leadership to ILO constituents across the region and championed the Decent Work Agenda with social, economic, and environmental policymakers at the highest levels.

Dennis Zulu has also served as UN Resident Coordinator a.i. for Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Aruba, and Curaçao (2022–2023), and previously as ILO Director for Anglophone West Africa and Representative to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), based in Nigeria (2015–2019).

Dennis Zulu holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Zambia, a Master’s degree from Mzumbe University, United Republic of Tanzania, a Postgraduate Diploma from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Zambia.

Dr. Ana Laura Touza, a national of Argentina, is a rural sociologist and gender specialist. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), a master’s degree in development from Erasmus University in The Netherlands, and a bachelor's degree in political science (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina). She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

As a researcher, she conducted a study on the social exclusion of peasants in Honduras and studies on gaps in rural municipalities to achieve Millennium Goals in the same country. As a gender specialist, she was part of the team that developed the Gender Economic Profile of Central America, leading the research for Honduras. Additionally, she conducted research on Maya women in Guatemala and Miskito and Lenca women in Honduras.

She worked at the United Nations Development Programme in Honduras and the World Food Programme in Honduras, Mozambique, and Panama, where she coordinated a regional program to include small producers in value chains, involving nine countries.

Dr. Touza was the Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations (FAO) Representative in Cabo Verde from 2019-2025. She is currently the FAO Representative in Jamaica, The Bahamas and Belize.

Mr. Brian Bogart has over 20 years of experience managing humanitarian and development programmes at the global, regional and national levels.
As the newly designated Country Director for the WFP Caribbean Multi-Country Office, which coordinates support for 22 countries and territories as well as several regional institutions, he oversees WFP’s work throughout the English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean in the areas of social protection, disaster risk management and food systems.

Before joining the MCO, Mr. Bogart served as Deputy Country Director for WFP Tanzania. He has served in a variety of roles throughout his WFP career, including Senior Regional Pro-gramme Advisor for Southern Africa, Strategic Advisor in the New York Global Office and HQ, and emergency coordination roles in Ukraine, Mozambique, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and South Sudan. He began his career with WFP in 2005 as a Congressional Hunger Fellow in Cam-bodia.

Mr. Bogart is a national of the United States and holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury and a BA in Political Science from the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Mr. Christopher J. Corbin is the Coordinator of the Cartagena Convention Secretariat of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), based in Kingston, Jamaica. With more than 30 years of experience in environmental governance and marine pollution management in the Caribbean, he leads regional cooperation to protect the marine and coastal environment of the Wider Caribbean Region through the implementation of the Cartagena Convention and its Protocols. Prior to joining UNEP in 2004, he served as a national delegate of Saint Lucia to international environmental negotiations and worked on regional initiatives addressing water quality, wastewater management, and pollution control.

Ms. Deirdre Shurland currently serves as the Officer-in-Charge and Programme Management Officer of UNEP’s Caribbean Sub-Regional Office in Kingston - of the Panama-based, Latin America & Caribbean Office. She is a multi-sector, strategic international development professional with 25+ years leading and implementing complex programs in sustainable “green” economic planning and growth, environmental policy and advocacy, heritage/culture/conservation-centered tourism and hospitality, governance, MEL, and multimillion-dollar resource mobilization. She has experience across the multilateral system, with cabinet-level representatives, government agencies, public/private partners, donors and investors, NGOs (WWF, CI), CSOs, industry and markets in the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia.

In July 2025, Mr. Eric Falt was appointed as Regional Director of the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean, based in Kingston, Jamaica. He is the UNESCO Representative to Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago as well as Anguilla, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Montserrat and Sint Maarten.

Mr. Falt was previously based in Rabat, Morocco (2022 – 2025), as the Regional Director of the UNESCO Office for the Maghreb and UNESCO Representative in Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.

From 2018 to 2022, he was based in New Delhi, India as Regional Director of the UNESCO Office for South Asia.

From 2010 to 2018, he was Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Public Information, based at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris - with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General of the UN.

With 35 years of experience at the United Nations, Mr. Falt also served in New York as Director of the Outreach Division in the UN Department of Public Information (2007-2010), and in Nairobi, Kenya as Director of the Communications Division for the UN Environment Programme (2002-2007).

Previously, he was Director of the UN Information Centre in Islamabad, Pakistan (1998-2002).

A national of France, Mr. Falt also served in the 1990’s as a spokesperson for UN peacekeeping and humanitarian operations in Cambodia, Haiti and Iraq.

Mr. Harold Robinson has over 35 years of experience in sustainable development, population, and human rights.

He has held various management and coordination positions in international development cooperation. In his most recent position at the United Nations between 2019-2022, Mr. Robinson served as Regional Director of UNFPA for Latin America and the Caribbean. Culminating in a significant strategic leadership role in the region's development goals and the promotion of human rights. He has also held advisory position in boards and networks including:

Senior Advisor to the African Renaissance Diaspora Network for Latin America and the Caribbean; Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Center for Sustainable Development (CIES); Executive Secretary of the Group of Afro-descendant Parliamentarians of Latin America and the Caribbean; Expert of the Scientific Committee of the AFROMADRID International Conference

Mr. Robinson holds a Master of Science in Economics with expertise in studies and economics from the University of California, USA. 1987 Agricultural Engineer with expertise in Crop Science from the University of Costa Rica. 1982 Postgraduate diplomas, including: Diploma with honors in Economics from the Institute of International Economics at the University of Colorado, USA; Diploma in International Development Management from Cranfield University, United Kingdom; International Development Management and Consulting from Jones International University, Virtual Development Academy of the UNDP, New York

He is fluent in Spanish and English (native languages) and Portuguese.

Mr. Stein was appointed Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Representative for Jamaica, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands effective September 2021. A national of Canada, he holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from McGill University, in Canada, and a graduate degree in development and cooperation from the University of Ottawa, in Canada.

With over 25 years of international experience in public health, Mr. Stein has worked in a range of government, non-government, and international organizations, with long term positions in Canada, Nigeria, Honduras, the USA, and currently in Jamaica. His contributions to public health have focused on environmental health, childhood immunization (including polio eradication and measles elimination), HIV/AIDS, strengthening community-based primary health care, and extensive support to emergencies. His support to emergencies included extended missions in Haiti, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo, serving as the Deputy Regional Incident Manager pertaining to the COVID-19 and Zika pandemics, and leading the Organization’s Jamaica-based response to Hurricane Melissa.

Mr. Stein’s experience has spanned all levels of PAHO. After joining the PAHO/WHO in 2004, he completed senior regional assignments to the Organization’s efforts on project support, planning, and partnerships.

Ms. Iyahen is currently the Deputy Representative and Acting Head of Office with the UN Women Multi-Country Office (MCO) for the Caribbean. She is responsible for the day-to-day management of the MCO, substantially contributing to the design, implementation, management and oversight of programmes and operations to ensure effective and efficient delivery of results.

Ms. Iyahen commenced duties as Deputy Representative in April 2022. Prior to this, Ms. Iyahen managed the Economic Empowerment and Statistics portfolios for the UN Women MCO-Caribbean. In that capacity, her technical leadership resulted in narrowing significant knowledge, research, and gender data gaps on violence against women and girls, the labour force, social protection, and unpaid care work in CARICOM.

She has over 20 years of experience in international development and has served in various capacities within the United Nations system and non-governmental organisations.

Ms. Iyahen has a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Minnesota’s Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Swarthmore College.

Mr. Jaevion Nelson is a Caribbean development practitioner and human‑rights advocate focused on strengthening community‑led, rights‑based health systems. He serves as the Advisor, Community Support with the UNAIDS Multi‑Country Office for the Caribbean, where he supports governments, civil society, communities of people living with and most affected by HIV and regional bodies to advance equitable access to HIV services and accelerate progress toward the 95‑95‑95 and 10‑10‑10 targets for ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. He has led policy dialogues, programme design, manages grants, capacity‑building that improve service continuity for vulnerable and marginalised populations and served on the core team that developed the Global AIDS Strategy 2026-2031.

Jaevion writes and speaks regularly on public health, rights‑based development, education, and public policy in the Caribbean. He holds an MSc. in Social Development and Communication from the Swansea University and a BSc. in Management Studies (Marketing) from the University of the West Indies. He was a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Youth Award for Excellence (2005) and Youth Musgrave Medal (2008) in Jamaica as well as the Chevening Scholarship (2009).Jaevion Nelson is a Caribbean development practitioner and human‑rights advocate focused on strengthening community‑led, rights‑based health systems. He serves as the Advisor, Community Support with the UNAIDS Multi‑Country Office for the Caribbean, where he supports governments, civil society, communities of people living with and most affected by HIV and regional bodies to advance equitable access to HIV services and accelerate progress toward the 95‑95‑95 and 10‑10‑10 targets for ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. He has led policy dialogues, programme design, manages grants, capacity‑building that improve service continuity for vulnerable and marginalised populations and served on the core team that developed the Global AIDS Strategy 2026-2031.

Mr. Joni Musabayana, a Zimbabwean national, first joined the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 1992 as Project Officer at the ILO Country Office for Zimbabwe and Namibia in Harare. He has since held many positions with the Organization.

His other previous roles include Global Coordinator for the ILO Start and Improve Your Own Business Programme in Geneva, as well as Enterprise Specialist at the ILO Regional Office for Africa in Addis Ababa.

Prior to his current role as Director of the ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean, Mr. Musabayana served as Director of the ILO Pretoria Decent Work Team, leading technical support for 18 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. He was also Director for the Country Office politically and administratively covering Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho and South Africa.

Mr. Musabayana brings extensive experience addressing issues relevant to the Caribbean including labour migration, enterprise development, social protection, skills development, gender equality and climate resilience. His dedication to fostering tripartite social dialogue and cooperation between governments, employers, and workers has been instrumental in reducing decent work deficits and driving positive change in the labour landscape.

As Director of the ILO Caribbean Office, Mr. Musabayana leads the promotion of social justice, decent work, and inclusive economic growth across 13 Member States and nine non-metropolitan territories in the English-and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. He provides strategic direction for technical guidance and cooperation through Decent Work Country Programmes and other activities supported though the wider United Nations system serving in the region.

Mr. Musabayana has a Doctorate in Business Leadership from UNISA School of Business Leadership, as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Zimbabwe. He also has a Diploma in Training Management, and a Diploma in Computer Programming.

Before joining the ILO, Mr Musabayana worked for the Zimbabwe Ministry of Higher Education and the Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe.

He is a music lover, avid reader, political analyst and a keen sportsman who played basketball for the Zimbabwe national team for 13 years. He enjoys running and going to the gym. He is married to Wynne and they have two boys and two girls and one granddaughter.

Previously, Ms. Meredith was Senior Programme Coordinator/Head of the Global Programme on Criminal Network Disruption (BMB) and Head of the Programme Office in Portugal. She also worked with the Global Maritime Crime Programme (GMCP) as Deputy Head, launching regional GMCP programmes in the Mediterranean and Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, she served as Regional Programme Coordinator covering ROSEN (a.i.), ROSEAP from Bangkok, and ROEA and ROSA from Nairobi. She was also Programme Officer and Head of Office in Mogadishu and Associate Programme Officer in Nairobi.

Prior to joining UNODC in 2012, Ms. Meredith worked with the Canadian Government as a Policy Analyst and Project Officer/Legal Counsel, including on corruption in Ukraine. She also held short assignments with NGOs in Canada, Haiti, Indonesia, Guinea, and Kenya as a Legal Researcher, Prisoner Rights Advocate, and Legal Aid Consultant, and interned with UNODC in Vienna and Nairobi.

Ms. Meredith holds an LL.B./B.C.L/M.B.A from McGill University (Canada) and is licensed with the Law Society of Ontario.

Dr. Kishan Khoday is Resident Representative at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Multi-Country Office in Jamaica, from where he represents UNDP in The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Islands, leading UNDP’s portfolio of initiatives on poverty and inequality, governance and justice, climate and ecosystem resilience, and disaster risk reduction and recovery. He has served with the UN for 25 years including prior assignments in China, India, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

Kishan started his career in India helping combat poverty and exclusion in remote rural areas, while in Indonesia he led landmark governance reform partnerships on access to justice and indigenous rights. In China, he led the UNs largest portfolio globally on climate action and the green transition, while in Saudi Arabia he oversaw UNDPs largest sustainable energy initiative globally, as well as the UNs first human rights partnership in the country. This was followed by tours of duty in UNDPs regional centres in Egypt and Jordan, where among other things he led resilient recovery solutions for crisis-affected communities in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia.

Across his career, Kishan has coordinated over USD 1 billion in grant assistance for transformational change and local impact across the development agenda. Kishan is a Juris Doctor specialized in constitutional and international law, holds MSc and BSc degrees specialized in planetary systems and resource security, and post-graduate certificates in partnerships, management and leadership. He has been a thought leader across the development agenda, with over thirty publications in UN and academic journals on issues of governance reform, decolonial pathways and planetary change, including as a lead author in the Human Development Report.

In addition to his current role as UNDP Resident Representative for The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Islands, Kishan also serves as Representative in these countries for UNDP-hosted entities such as UN Volunteers (UNV) and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).

Ms. Liliana Garavito is a Colombia national with twenty-seven years of experience as a journalist and communications specialist. She has worked for twenty-three years with the UN and four years as a news producer.

As the director for the United Nations Information Centre for the Caribbean Area (UNIC Caribbean), Liliana works to educate Caribbean audiences about the work of the UN globally and provides communications support to various UN offices and agencies operating within the Caribbean region.

Before joining UNIC Caribbean, Liliana served as a Regional Communications Officer for the Development Coordination Office based in Panama. This position entailed managing a network of communication professionals across 25 countries. In previous years, she acted as Chief of Public Information and Communication Strategy in the UN Verification Mission in Colombia.

Prior to joining the Mission, she served as Information Officer for 17 years at UNIC Bogotá, which also covers Ecuador and Venezuela, and led public information activities.

Mr. Mohammad Mohiuddin started his current mission to Jamaica as Deputy Representative, UNICEF Jamaica in October 2023. He has been leading UNICEF program in Education, Health, Nutrition, Child Protection, DRR & Climate Change, Social Policy, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene, and Social & Behavioral Change, and Communications. UNICEF has been working in partnership with Government Ministries & Parastatals, Legislatures, Judiciary, Office of Child Advocates, Academia, Civil Society Organizations, Think Tanks and Private Sector.

Prior to joining UNICEF Jamaica, He was State Chief – UNICEF Office for West Bengal in India since November 2017. He was also UN’s State Coordinator and Area Security Coordinator for the whole UN system. He was an active Member of Consular Corps Kolkata - CCK (forum of diplomatic community in Kolkata). He has been leading UNICEF mission in Education, Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene, Child Protection, Social Policy, and Communication for Development, Advocacy, and Media & Partnerships.

He also worked as UNICEF’s Chief of Zonal Office in Sokoto, Nigeria since 2014 and led UNICEF’s program in three Northwestern Federal States. Mr. Mohiuddin has been working for last 36 years in public policy, institutional development & governance and development management. Mr. Mohiuddin worked from 2006-2014 with UN-DPKO Missions in Afghanistan as Head of Civil Affairs Section in the Regional Office-Kunduz, Deputy Head of Field Coordination – in Mission HQ-Kabul and in Sudan with the Office of UN-RC/HC as Head of Humanitarian Unit. Previously he worked with the UNICEF Bangladesh from 2000-2004. Prior to this he also worked with the World Bank from 1998-2000. Mr. Mohiuddin started his career in Bangladesh Administrative Service in 1988 and worked with Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, National Planning Commission, and Central Bank of Bangladesh.

Mr. Mohiuddin is a national of Bangladesh. He obtained MBA in Economic Policy Management from University of Clermont-Ferrand, France in 1996 and Master’s in Economics from University of Chittagong, Bangladesh in 1988.

Mr. Nahuel Arenas is the Chief of the Regional Office for the Americas & the Caribbean at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). With over 25 years of experience, he has led humanitarian assistance, disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs, and development cooperation across Latin America & the Caribbean, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining UNDRR, Mr. Arenas was the Director for Humanitarian Programs and Policy at OXFAM USA. He has also worked with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Action Against Hunger (ACF), and consulted for UN-Habitat. Additionally, he has contributed to capacity-building programs, including the Harvard X / Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Course. His academic background includes Public Policy (FLACSO), International Politics (SOAS, Univ. of London), and Crisis Management (Universidad Complutense of Madrid).

Since 2019, Ms. Schloegl has assumed the position of Programme Management Officer in charge of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) technical cooperation programme in Jamaica.

Stein R. Hansen is an Economist who has been working in international development for 32 years. Since August 2024, he is the Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) - Barbados Global SIDS Hub and Representative to Barbados and Caribbean Community, Bridgetown, Barbados. Prior to his appointment, from October 2022 – July 2024, he was Director of Special Operations, Directorate of Global Partnerships and External Relations of UNIDO, Vienna, Austria. From February 2017-December 2022, he was the Regional Director and Representative of the UNIDO Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand, where he also represented UNIDO in the UN system Asia Pacific Regional Directors group. From June 2013–February 2017, he was Chief of Strategic Donor Relations, Office of Deputy to Director General, UNIDO, Vienna, Austria. From June 2012-June 2013 he was Resident Representative a.i. of the United Nations Development Programme – UNDP in Kuwait, where he periodically also served as the UN Resident Coordinator a.i. From 2007 to 2012, he was the UNDP Deputy Resident Representative, Sub-Regional Office for Barbados and Eastern Caribbean States, responsible for the UNDP Programme and Operations in 10 Caribbean countries and territories, periodically serving as UNDP Resident Representative a.i.

After graduating from Aalborg University, Denmark with his B.Sc (Econ.) he started his career as Trade Advisor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Helsinki, Finland 1989-1991. He then served the European Commission Delegation in Caracas, Venezuela 1991-1992. In 1993 he started his career with the UN system, first as UNDP Junior Professional Officer for UNIDO in Ecuador. In 1995, he was appointed as Associate Expert in charge of technical cooperation at the UNIDO New York Office until 1996, when he returned to Quito, Ecuador as head of the UNIDO Country Office. In 1998, he was appointed at the UNIDO Hqrs. in Vienna, Austria, as Industrial Development Officer managing environmental programs until 2002, when he was appointed Programme Officer responsible for coordinating UNIDO’s industrial development programmes delivered by Its 26 country offices, until he joined UNDP in 2007.

In addition to being an Economist, Stein R. Hansen holds a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University with focus on international development. He is also a Senior Executive Fellow of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has completed the United Nations Leaders Programme, and the United Nations Country Team Leadership and Coordination Skills Programme at the United Nations Staff College. In addition to his native Norwegian, he communicates fluently in English, Spanish, German, Danish and Swedish. He is married to Birgitte Hansen and they have three children.