Abdullah Dardari

Abdullah Abdel Razzaq al-Dardari (Arabic: عبدالله عبدالرزاق الدردري; born 1963) is a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and the United Nations Development Program Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States. Prior to his appointment in 2023, he was the United Nations Development Program's Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan. Previously, he worked for the World Bank. He has also served in several positions in the government of the Syrian Arab Republic. In September 2014, he was appointed as Deputy Executive Secretary of Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. On this occasion, he has been criticized for never publicly criticizing Bashar al-Assad’s current Syrian government. He has also been accused of maintaining ambiguous relationships with both the various rebel groups and the Syrian Government.