Mr Manish Kumar Agrawal
(Secondment from India)
Mr Manish Kumar Agrawal was born in
Bikaner in the state of Rajasthan, in India on 14 September
1971. He is married to Dr. Manisha Bansal, who is a medical
practisioner with Government of India, and has two daughters. Mr.
Manish traveled widely with his family all over India.
After completing his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology [IIT] Kanpur in 1993, he served
briefly in the private sector before joining the Indian Civil
Service in 1996. He has worked as administrator of various units
including police units, wherein he was responsible for the, budget
and finance management, planning, conflict management, personnel
management etc.. He also served as an Officer on Special Duty
to the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs of Republic of India, and
with the Multilateral Economic Relations (MER) Division of the
Ministry of External Affairs of Government of India.
Mr Agarwal also holds Master's Degree in Human Rights from
Pondicherry University and is pursuing Master's Degree in
International Relations. Mr Agarwal has undergone various
professional training courses including the High Level Management
Course on UN Missions at CoESPU, Vicenza, Italy and in Disaster
Management (Critical Incident Management) in Louisiana, USA.
Mr H Graham Anderson (Secondment
from South Africa)
Mr Graham Anderson was born in
Pretoria, South Africa on 30 December 1959. He matriculated in 1977
and upon completion of his national service in 1979, enrolled at
the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in
1980. From 1980 to 1982 he completed a Bachelor's of Arts (BA)
majoring in History, Psychology and Political Science; in 1983 he
completed a Higher Education Diploma (Post Graduate); followed by a
Honneursbaccalaureus Artium (BA Hons) in Political Science in 1985
and a
Magister Artium (MA) in Political Science in 1993. Since 1984, he
studied part time at the University of the Free State.
In 1984 he joined the South African
Department of Foreign Affairs and has remained in the Foreign
Service until the secondment to
the IOR-ARC Secretariat on 1 October 2012.
During his career in the Foreign
Service of South Africa, he served as 3rd Secretary at
the South African Legation in Helsinki, Finland (1986 to 1990); as
Counsellor (Commissioned) to the South African Embassy in Brasilia,
Brazil (1992 to 1996); Counsellor at the South African Embassy in
Caracas, Venezuela (1998 to 2002); and as Counsellor (Bilateral) at
the South African Embassy in Vienna, Austria (2004 to 2009).
At the South African Foreign
Ministry's Head Office in Pretoria, he served in the Department's
Foreign Affairs Secretariat (1984 to
1986); the Directorate: Publications (1990 to 1992); Latin
American and MERCOSUL Directorate (1996 to 1998); Branch
Multilateral Directorate for Social Development Organisations (2001
to 2004); and the USA Directorate in the Branch: Americas and the
Caribbean. Since June 2009 at the Branch: Americas and the
Caribbean he has managed a team of officials in the socio-economic
portfolio which included trade and industry, health policy
development, education and training, transport, energy cooperation,
agriculture and rural development. He has also served on the South
African National Treasury's trilateral steering committee which
encourages funding for trilateral projects into Africa from South
Africa and the USA.
During the South African COP17/CMP7
Presidency and since May 2011 as incoming COP17/CMP7 President, he
served on the Team of the Ambassador-at-Large for COP17/CMP7 where
he was responsible for the drafting of the speeches of the
COP17/CMP7 President and the compiling of all background documents
and annotated agenda required by the COP17/CMP7 President and
the
Ambassador-at-Large for COP17/CMP7.
Recent career highlights include,
the drafting of the opening addresses for both the President of
South Africa and the COP17/CMP7 President at the COP17/CMP7
Conference in Durban in December 2011; Rapporteur for Health during
the European Diaspora Conference in Paris, France, the intense
lobby action for the re-election for a 3rd term for the
South African Auditor General as External Auditor for UNIDO in
Vienna, Austria, as well as the negotiations for two full Masters
Degree scholarships for South African students at a top Austrian
Academic Institution.
Graham is married to Erika and has
four children, William (24), Graham (22), Megan (11) and Robyn
(8).