Biography

  

 

Dr Jeremy Milsom

Representative, UNODC Pakistan

 

Dr Jeremy Milsom, a national of Australia, has over 20 years of international professional experience in South East Asia, West and Central Asia, and the Pacific Islands region.

He has been working with UNODC since May 1996, and in that time, he has developed and managed a broad range of programmes covering counter-narcotics, alternative development, national capacity building and drug demand reduction in challenging and complex environments.

During his tenure with the UN system, he has served in the country offices in Myanmar, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. In prior international development roles, he worked on assignments in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands region.

Prior to taking up the overall coordination of the Regional Programme for Afghanistan and Neighbouring countries, a role he has held since 2013, he managed the counter narcotics pillar in the Country Office in Afghanistan, with a focus on national capacity building, policy development and alternative livelihoods. In Myanmar where he served from 1996 to 2006, he was instrumental in developing, negotiating and managing a three-tier programme to assist the Autonomous Wa cease-fire group phase out opium cultivation.

Mr. Milsom holds BA (Hons) and BSc degrees in Social Sciences and Environmental Sciences respectively from the Australian National University. He later attained a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Melbourne (Australia) with research that focused on the interrelationship between drug control, security and development. 

 

Media Interviews:

Interview of Dr Jeremy Milsom, representative UNODC Pakistan, regarding World Drug Day 2022 on PTV World with Omar Khalid Butt