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Section: Politics and International Relations
Martin Barber
- Name
- Dr Martin Barber
- Title
- Hon Fellow
- Organisation
- Politics, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/politics/martin_barber
Martin Barber served as Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) at UN Headquarters in New York from 2000 until retiring in July 2005. Previously, he was Chief of Policy Development and Advocacy in the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Barber was Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH), Sarajevo. From 1989 to 1996, he worked with the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCHA) in Islamabad, Pakistan, serving as UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan in 1995-96. From 1975 to 1982 he served with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Laos and Thailand. Between 1982 and 1989, he was Director of the British Refugee Council, London.
Since retirement, Dr. Barber has undertaken consultancies for the British Government, UNHCR and the International Peace Academy. In 2007, he offered a course at Edinburgh on “The UN and Complex Emergencies”.
Dr. Barber holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Hull and an MA in French Language and Literature from St. Andrews University. In 2006, he was awarded an OBE for “services to demining”. Dr. Barber is married, with two sons, and lives in Fife.
This page was published on 1 September 2008