Éliane Duthoit
Eliane Duthoit is a senior United Nations official working for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
She was head of the OCHA offices in Ingushetia, Uganda, and Nepal.
In Uganda, she was pivotal in attracting international attention to what the United Nations believed was a forgotten humanitarian crisis.[1] While in Chechnya, she played an important role in facilitating negotiations between the Russian military and Chechen rebels to ensure humanitarian relief for IDPs.[2]
In 2006, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as head of the OCHA office in Juba, Southern Sudan, under the leadership of Under-Secretary-General Jan Egeland. She played a major role there, in facilitating negotiations at the 2006-2007 Juba talks between the Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army, hosted and mediated by the Government of Southern Sudan with United Nations support.
In 2007, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon as head of the OCHA office in Chad.
When not working, she lives in Brittany, and has three daughters.