Jan Egeland serves as Human Rights Watch’s deputy executive director of Europe. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, he was the executive director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. As UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and as UN Emergency Relief Coordinator from 2003 to 2006, Egeland helped reform the global humanitarian response system and organized the international response to the Asian Tsunami, and for crises from Darfur to the Democratic Republic of Congo to Lebanon. In 2006, Time magazine named him one of the 100 “people who shape our world.” From 1999 to 2002, he was the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Colombia, and from 1990 to 1997 he served as state secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has substantial experience in the field of humanitarian relief and conflict resolution through his work at the United Nations, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, the Norwegian Government, and other nongovernmental organizations. Egeland also currently holds a position as an associate professor at the University of Stavanger.