Volker Türk
Volker Türk is an Austrian lawyer and United Nations official. He has been the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since 17 October 2022.
Some of the key events about Volker Türk
- 1985Graduated with a law degree from the University of Vienna
- 1991Joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- 2000Appointed Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section at UNHCR
- 2009Became Director of the Division of International Protection at UNHCR
- 2015Appointed Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR
- 2019Served as Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General
- 2021Appointed Under-Secretary-General for Policy in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General
- 2022Elected as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 2022Assumed office as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on October 17
- 2023Advocated for global action on climate change and human rights at COP28 in Dubai
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