Stephen Kinloch Pichat

Mr. Stephen Kinloch Pichat assumed his duties in BiH in October 2021.

Stephen Kinloch Pichat, a French and British national, joined UNDP through its Leadership Development Programme in 2001. Over the last 20 years, previously to joining the UNDP BiH team, he assumed managerial and leadership functions with UNDP in Angola, Afghanistan, Darfur, Somaliland, Yemen, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and Chad. He also provided strategic planning advice to Resident Coordinators in Afghanistan and Haiti. In HQs, he coordinated and supported emergency response, at the UNV’s Humanitarian Relief Unit and Liaison Office in Geneva (1995-2000) and at UNDP’s Emergency Response Division (2001) and at Crisis Response Unit (2015) in New York.

Between 1991 and 1994, Stephen covered post-cold-war events for the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)’s European Office in Geneva and served as a UN volunteer to Cambodia (UNTAC), the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (UNHCR), and Somalia (UNOSOM).

He holds a master’s degree from the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, and a PhD in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.