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Manoj Juneja profile

Manoj Juneja

Manoj is the Managing Partner of Catalyst Advisory. He has more than 20 years of top leadership experience in the United Nations spanning humanitarian, development and peace-building contexts.

His functions at the rank of Under Secretary General and Assistant Secretary General across three UN agencies included: Deputy Executive Director & CFO at the World Food Programme, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2020; Deputy Director General (Operations) and Assistant Director General (Management) at the Food and Agriculture Organization, where he also led strategy, budget and corporate performance; and Executive Director Support Services & Comptroller at the International Labour Organization.

Manoj holds a Masters and Bachelors degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and is a Chartered Accountant.

He is a Research Affiliate at the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught finance and management at the LSE, Boston University and the University of Geneva.