As the 'fixer-in-chief steps down, a look at Martin Griffiths' record: Will Worley / The New Humanitarian

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"“He’s emerged as UN fixer-in-chief dealing with a lot of crisis situations,” echoed Richard Gowan, who oversees UN advocacy at the Crisis Group think tank. “He’s led from the front and gained a degree of trust and leeway from the [secretary-general] in a way very few other people do.”

"In “Gaza, the unstoppable force of Martin Griffiths met the immovable object of Israeli distrust of the UN”, said Gowan."

"OCHA and Griffiths have received heavy criticism for overlooking Myanmar's active civil society humanitarian networks, especially amid the spiralling conflicts that have followed a February 2021 coup."

These groups have accused the UN – and OCHA in particular – of being too close to the junta. "

“I think he really got sucked up into all the response and humanitarian diplomacy around these crises,”.......“So there is a question about how do you then have enough time to focus on humanitarian leadership and policy and broader management questions.”