Mark Manly is head of donor relations and resource mobilisation at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Previously, from 2015 to 2021, Manly was the UNHCR representative in Mexico, where he led the agency’s efforts to address mixed population movements and increase capacity to receive a growing number of refugees, including through an innovative local integration and job placement programme.

From 2008 to 2015, he coordinated UNHCR’s global efforts to prevent and reduce statelessness and protect stateless people. He was one of the architects of the organisation’s global #Ibelong campaign to address statelessness. Manly has also been posted with UNHCR in Colombia and Costa Rica.

Before joining UNHCR, he served as human rights officer with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission in Kosovo (in 2000), and as human rights observer in the United Nations Human Rights Verification Mission in Guatemala (1995- 98).

UNHCR received the Nobel Peace Prize in both 1954 and 1981.