Paul Taylor

Mr. Taylor is currently the Chief of the Office of the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, based in Nairobi, Kenya. During his career in the agency he has had responsibility for a number of global programmes dealing with the urban environment, disaster management and safer cities, as well as the Global Campaign for Urban Governance. An urban planner by profession he has worked in the developing world, mainly in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, for most of his career. Immediately prior to joining the UN he was an international consultant based in Copenhagen, Denmark working for a variety of multilateral and bilateral agencies specializing in urban development issues as well as more generally in institutional development.