Dr Muhammed Mudawi

Resident Representative a.i.

United Nations Development Programme – Syria

Dr. Mohammed Mudawi (Sudan) began his international career with UNDP in Nepal in 2007 and has since held progressively senior positions across multiple regions. He joined UNDP Syria in September 2023 as Deputy Resident Representative and, effective 15 June 2025, serves as Resident Representative a.i. Under his leadership, UNDP’s programme in Syria has expanded to exceed USD 200 million, advancing national recovery priorities through the strengthening of public institutions, the restoration of essential services—including energy access—and economic recovery.

Between November 2022 and August 2023, Dr Mudawi was assigned to manage the FSO Safer oil tanker project in Yemen.

From July 2019 to October 2022, Dr. Mudawi served as Deputy Resident Representative for the UNDP Office in Saudi Arabia, where he significantly advanced the partnership with the Kingdom. His leadership helped expand collaboration in key areas, including integrated water resources management, statistics, energy, urban development, and public sector excellence.

From October 2015 to June 2019, Dr. Mudawi led UNDP’s largest Funding Facility for Stabiliaztion (FFS) in Iraq, managing a budget of over one billion USD. Under his leadership, the programme restored essential services in areas liberated from ISIL, enabling the return of more than 4.9 million internally displaced Iraqis. Supported by 27 donor countries, the Stabilization Programme became a flagship example of effective post-conflict recovery.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Mudawi led several health initiatives and supported resource-mobilization efforts for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis across Sudan (2006), Nepal (2007–2009), Somalia (2010), Yemen (2010), and Iraq (2011–2015). He also served as Global Fund Technical Officer with the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean from 2009 to 2011.

His commitment to continuous learning is reflected in his successful completion of UNDP’s corporate assessments for the Deputy Resident Representative and the Resident Representative roles in 2014 and 2018. Dr. Mudawi holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Khartoum in Sudan.

He is married and a proud father of five children.