Yvonne Helle was appointed as the UNDP’s Special Representative of the Administrator in September 2019. Prior to that, she temporarily managed the Sub-Regional Facility for the Syrian Crisis in Amman, was Senior Country Director in Haiti, Country Director in Sudan, Head of Partnership in New York, Deputy Resident Representative in Morocco, and Assistant Resident Representative for Governance in Laos. Equipped with an MSc from the Agricultural University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, Yvonne started her UN career in 1992 as a Dutch Junior Professional Officer. Yvonne is married and has two children.