AKIPRESS.COM - Robert Glasser, Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction will visit Mongolia for the ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting. He will speak at the opening ceremony of the meeting in Ulaanbaatar on April 4-5, reports news.mn.

During visit, Mr Glasser will sign a cooperation agreement with Deputy Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh and also meet Prime Minister J.Erdenebat as well as D.Oyunkhorol, Minister of the Environment, Green Development and Tourism.

An Australian, Robert Glasser was appointed as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) in 2016.

Mr. Glasser is currently Executive-in-Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, where he focuses on the humanitarian impacts of climate change. He brings to the UNISDR over 20 years of experience in disaster response and fighting poverty. Born in 1959, Mr. Glasser holds a PhD in international relations (strategic studies) from the National University of Australia.