Rudolf MÜLLER

Chief, Emergency Services Branch,
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Geneva

Rudolf Müller is a graduate from the Austrian Military Academy, served in the Austrian Army and as verification expert in the United Nations Special Commission for Iraq (for the verification of WMD) before joining DHA in 1993, followed by OCHA. He worked as a Desk Officer and disaster expert on major emergencies such as the earthquake in Bam, Iran and the Indian Ocean Earthquake/Tsunami. From 2005 to 2006 he was Head of OCHA’s office in Southern Sudan, after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.  For nearly two years (2006 to 2008), he was Chief of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Secretariat before he was appointed Deputy Director of the Coordination and Response Division (CRD) of OCHA in New York. Rudolf Muller has led numerous emergency missions to support the Resident/Humanitarian Coordinators and OCHA offices in situ, and humanitarian coordination in general. Since March 2010, Rudolf Muller is Chief, Emergency Services Branch with OCHA in Geneva where he manages OCHA’s emergency tools and services, such as the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination teams (UNDAC), Civil-Military Coordination, and Surge support.