Jan Egeland

Jan Egeland (born September 12, 1957, Stavanger, Norway) is a Norwegian public official who served as head of United Nations (UN) humanitarian and relief efforts from 2003 to 2006. Egeland earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo (1982) and studied as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1982–83). He served as a fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem before returning to...