United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a part of the United Nations. The purpose of this agency is to protect and support refugees when governments or the UN ask for help. The UNHCR helps refugees return home out of their voluntary will, settle locally, or move to a third country according to the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and other international law. The agency's headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group chaired by United Nations Development Programme.^[1] The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes in 1954 and in 1981.^[2]

List of High Commissioners

#	High Commissioners	Nationality	Time
–	Nansen, FridtjofFridtjof Nansen	Norway	1922–1927 League of Nations High Commissioner
1	Goedhart, Gerrit Jan van HeuvenGerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart	Netherlands	1951–1956
2	Lindt, Auguste R.Auguste R. Lindt	Switzerland	1956–1960
3	Schnyder, FélixFélix Schnyder	Switzerland	1960–1965
4	Aga Khan, SadruddinSadruddin Aga Khan	Iran	1965–1977
5	Hartling, PoulPoul Hartling	Denmark	1978–1985
6	Hocké, Jean-PierreJean-Pierre Hocké	Switzerland	1986–1989
7	Stoltenberg, ThorvaldThorvald Stoltenberg	Norway	1990
8	Ogata, SadakoSadako Ogata	Japan	1990–2000
9	Lubbers, RuudRuud Lubbers	Netherlands	2001–2005 (Resign due to internal investigation)
10	Guterres, AntónioAntónio Guterres	Portugal	2005–2015
11	Grandi, FilippoFilippo Grandi	Italy	2016–present

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHCR packages containing tents, tarps, and mosquito netting sit in a field in Dadaab, Kenya, on 11 December 2006, following disastrous flooding
UNHCR 50th anniversary. Stamp of Tajikistan, 2001.
Aerial view of Zaatari refugee camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan, July 2013
Refugee camp in Darfur (Chad)
A helicopter arrives at a refugee facility in Macedonia with an underslung load of aid.
Trucks loaded with supplies drive across the border from Turkey into Iraq to take part in Operation Provide Comfort, a multinational effort to aid Kurdish refugees.
An UNHCR-officer talks with a Marine during Exercise Eager Lion 12.
Workers from the UNHCR, and CARE International gather bundles of shelters and mosquito nets in Kenya.
Heavily fortified UNHCR offices in Somaliland