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Mr. Kristian Hölge |
Mr. Kristian Hölge, a national of Denmark, has been appointed as the new Regional Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA), which covers Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Mr. Hölge will assume this new charge as the Regional Representative of ROSA in mid-September 2025. He joined UNODC in the year 2000 and since then has been working at various international positions of increasing responsibility. Before this post, he served as UNODC’s Representative in Mexico from 2020 to 2025. Prior to that he served as the Representative in Lima, with responsibility for Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay (2016-2020). From 2012 to 2016 he worked in the Regional Section for Latin America and the Caribbean in Vienna. Having pioneered UNODC’s Legal Assistance Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 to 2012, Mr. Hölge combines real technical expertise with hands-on management experience. Mr. Hölge holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) with specialized studies from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He has taught law at the Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) and regularly publishes articles on UNODC’s mandate areas, such as drugs, corruption, human trafficking, money-laundering, asset forfeiture, corporate social responsibility and the 2030 Agenda. He is married to a social entrepreneur with whom he has a daughter.
