Robert Piper is a former UN Assistant Secretary-General with over three decades of leadership in development, humanitarian affairs and crisis response across four continents. He most recently served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Solutions for Internal Displacement. He is the former Director of the UN Development Coordination Office, leading global reform of the UN’s development system and managing 131 UN Resident Coordinators. He was previously UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel, UN Resident Coordinator in Nepal and in Kosovo. He served as Chief of Staff to former US President Clinton as UN envoy for the Indian Ocean Tsunami recovery process, and spearheaded innovative UN partnerships such as NetAid and the €500M Spanish MDG Fund. Advisor and strategist on conflict prevention and peacebuilding, disaster preparedness and risk reduction, state-building and UN reform. Regular contributor to global media and author of op-eds and interventions on peacebuilding, risk reduction and more recently displacement solutions. Yale World Fellow 2004. Member of WEF Global Future Council on Reimagining Aid.