Ross Mountain

He was responsible for managing the largest and most challenging UN election operation ever undertaken by the United Nations in 2006 in Congo, which brought Joseph Kabila to power.

[2] Prior to his assignment in Congo, Mountain replaced Sergio Vieira De Mello, the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, at the time serving as a Special Representative of the Secretary General in Iraq who was killed in Baghdad by a terrorist attack on the UN Headquarters on 19 August 2003.

[7] In October 2002, Mountain led an inter-agency technical assessment mission to the West Bank and Gaza to prepare a humanitarian plan of action.

[8] In 2003, Mountain headed the OCHA Crisis Task Team for Iraq, in which capacity he visited that country in July 2003 to review the humanitarian programme.

[9] From January 2010 to December 2012, Mountain served as Director General of DARA (international organization), an independent humanitarian think tank based in Madrid, Spain.