Martin Griffiths

Martin Griffiths (born 3 July 1951) is a British diplomat who is currently serving as the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen at the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen since 16 February 2018.
Biography.
Griffiths holds a Master Degree in Southeast Asian studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and he is a qualified barrister. Griffiths is a career diplomat. Griffiths previously served as the first executive director of the European Institute of Peace from 2016 to September 2018. In 1999, he helped launch the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva.
In February 2021, Griffiths visited Iran to find a political solution to the Yemeni Civil War. On 12 May 2021, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced that he had appointed Griffiths as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).