Brenden Varma
Deputy Director of the UN Information Centre in Washington, DC.
Brenden Varma has worked for the UN since 2002. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the UN Information Centre in Washington, DC. He served twice as Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. He also worked as a Political Affairs Officer, covering the Americas, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, and as an Associate Spokesperson for former Secretaries-General Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan. He has been posted in New York, Baghdad, Jerusalem, Mogadishu and Pristina. He holds degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Kent at Canterbury.