Robert Cameron Orr is an American academic who is the Dean of the

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. He formerly served as the

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Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General.

Early life and education

Orr holds a Ph.D. and M.P.A. in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at

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, and a bachelor's degree from the

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(UCLA). He speaks Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

Career

In 2003, Orr was named executive director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at

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. Before that, he was Director of the

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in Washington, D.C. and is still a current member. Orr was a co-director of a bipartisan commission on post-conflict reconstruction sponsored by the

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in Washington and the Association of the United States Army between 2001 and 2003. Between 1996 and 2001, Orr held a variety of senior positions in the Government of the United States. He served as Deputy to

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, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of the USUN Washington office. In this capacity, he played an active role in securing a delayed payment of nearly $1 billion of the US membership fees to the United Nations. He was also Director of Global and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council, in charge of peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs. Before working for the US government, Orr served at the International Peace Academy in New York and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2014, he became the Dean of the

Personal life

In 2000 he married Audrey Choi, then chief-of-staff to the

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and the daughter of children's author Sook Nyul Choi.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Orr, Robert C. Harvard Kennedy School staff University of California, Los Angeles alumni Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American officials of the United Nations