Oliver Lacey-Hall

Mr. Oliver Lacey-Hall is currently Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) where he has oversight of OCHA’s operations across Asia and the Pacific. He has 25 years’ experience in humanitarian work, with an initial focus on refugee issues followed by coordination and communications work, mixed with project and programme management.

Prior to taking up his current post in March 2011, he was Deputy Director of OCHA’s Communications and Information Services Branch in New York. Previous work experience includes humanitarian coordination and response work in China, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Iraq, Croatia, Armenia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the European Commission. He also managed the UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) Team for Asia Pacific (2002 to 2005), was responsible for OCHA’s global information management team and spearheaded development of OCHA’s surge capacity mechanisms.

Oliver studied at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and holds a Master’s Degree in Gender and Development.