Edo Stork

UNDP Resident Representative for Mozambique

Mr. Edo Stork is the new UNDP Resident Representative (RR) in Mozambique from September 30th, 2023. Prior to his appointment in Mozambique, Mr. Stork was UNDP Resident Representative in Angola between 2020 and 2023.

Mr. Stork has over twenty-one years of experience at the United Nations having begun his career in the United Nations system in 2001, as a Junior Professional Officer in the UNDP Fiji Multi Country Office covering 10 Pacific Islands Countries in the South Pacific. Subsequently, he became UNOPS Regional Coordinator, managing the UNOPS/UNDP e-Pacifika project covering the UNDP offices in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa between 2003 and 2004.

From 2005 to 2008 he served as Programme Specialist at UNDP Headquarters in the Centre for Business Solutions and at the Management Consulting Team (MCT) in the Bureau of Management. Subsequently, he served as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative (DRR) Programme and Operations in Trinidad and Tobago (2008-2012) covering Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten, and he served as UNDP DRR in Honduras (2012-2015). While in Honduras, he was UNDP Resident Representative ad interim (from January 2013 to April 2014). He further went on to serve as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Peru between 2016-2020.

Before entering in the UN system, Mr. Stork worked for the bilateral international development cooperation of the Netherlands in Peru (1999-2001) and in Swaziland (1995-1997). He also has experience in the Dutch private and public sector having worked at the ABN AMRO Bank Headquarters in Amsterdam and the Dutch National Theatre Institute in Amsterdam.

Mr. Stork holds a master’s degree in computer science from the Free University of Amsterdam, specialized in Artificial Intelligence. He is originally from Netherlands, married with one daughter and speaks fluent Dutch, English, Spanish and Portuguese and has basic knowledge of French and German.