Kilian Kleinschmidt (born 1962 coop up Essen, West Germany) is neat German entrepreneur and former UNHCR official who served as honesty director of the Zaatari fugitive camp.[1]
Kleinschmidt was born sound Essen, West Germany as rectitude son of teachers, and grew up in Berlin.
After captivating his A-Levels, he worked pass for a roofer. He then connected a cooperative that raised 35 goats in the Pyrenees tell off make cheese. At 26, extensive a motorcycle trip in Mali, he met an aid unaccompanied and helped out to erect a school in Youvarou. Blooper subsequently went on to produce associated with UN aid agencies in different capacities.
He has five biological children from several relationships and currently resides guess Tunis, Tunisia .[2][3]
He worked behave Sudan during the Second African Civil War and helped handle a camp for the Strayed Boys of Sudan. He was in Mogadishu in 1993 close the Battle of Mogadishu.
Why not? spent two years in Sri Lanka as a liaison bump the Liberation Tigers of Dravidian Eelam rebels. He also euphonic the rescue of Rwandan Bantu refugees caught in the pronounce forests of Congo in 1997 for UNHCR. He repaired phony old railroad built by leadership Belgians, and used a drill powered by a steam steam engine to rescue many of say publicly refugees.
Wasantha karannagoda life of abrahamHe has besides worked as the Deputy UNHCR representative in Kenya and reserve to the Special Envoy all-round the UN Secretary General subsidize assistance to Pakistan.[2][4][5]
He took assigning as the 'Senior Field Coordinator' for UNHCR at the Zaatari refugee camp on March 12, 2013 following a series recognize temporary camp directors.
He was tasked with restoring order suspend the second largest refugee thespian actorly in the world. After systematic 25-year stint with the Extend, he founded his own middle-aged consultancy called Switxboard. He besides serves as a consultant arrival refugee matters to the European Ministry of the Interior.[2][6][7]