Sarmad Khan is policy advisor at the U.N. Development Coordination Office in New York and leads its work on leadership solutions and reform. He has held positions with the U.N. staff college in Italy, U.N. operations in Iraq and Yemen, and UNDP’s crisis bureau in Switzerland. He has a M.Sc. in public policy from University of London, and spoken on leadership, fragility, and sustainable development at several conferences and events.
Two U.N. veterans outline three ways the U.N. leadership framework can be leveraged within broader U.N. development system reforms to deliver better development in fragile places.