Ursula Mueller, (sometimes spelled Müller) served as the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs from January 2017 to March 2020.
[1] Prior to this appointment of 5 January 2017 by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Ms. Mueller served at the World Bank Group as German Executive Director to the Board of Executive Directors.
She also holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Hagen, Germany.
From 2010 to 2012, she worked as Germany's Chargée d’Affaires in Reykjavík where she coordinated a task force in response to the 2009 global Financial Crisis.
She has also served on the Advisory Board to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and on the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund.