Richard Ragan ( born June 10 , 1964 ) is a senior staff member for the United Nations . As the Director of Operations , he opened the Liberia Office and managed operations as part of the UN Secretary General 's Ebola Emergency Response Mission ( UNMEER ) , and was the UNWFP Emergency Co-ordinator for the 2015 Nepal earthquake response . He 's spent time in the private sector as the Senior Director with Vulcan , Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen 's company . Also with the UN World Food Programme he has served as the ( WFP ) Representative to Bangladesh , Tanzania , Nepal , North Korea , Zambia , and worked on emergencies in East Timor , Kosovo and China . He also re-opened WFP 's office in Libya after it was evacuated in 2014 . Ragan appears regularly in both international and national media , and is listed in the book , '' Mississippians '' , which features famous people from the state of Mississippi
2015 Nepal earthquake
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
Richard Ragan