Career graph Mr. Tharoor's United Nations career began in May 1978 on the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, serving at UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva and for three-and-a-half years (1981-1984) as Head of the UNHCR office in Singapore at the peak of the Vietnamese "boat people" crisis. Shashi Tharoor is presently working with the United Nations as Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. Before that he had been serving as Interim Head of the Department of Public Information (DPI) at the Assistant-Secretary-General level. Prior to this assignment at DPI, Mr. Tharoor served as Director of Communications and Special Projects in the Office of the Secretary-General (1998-2001). Before that he worked as Executive Assistant to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan(1997-1998). As Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations (1989-1996), Mr. Tharoor assisted two successive heads of United Nations peacekeeping in managing the challenges of unprecedented growth and evolution in peacekeeping at the end of the cold war, notably in relation to the United Nations peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1996.
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