Jan Egeland steps down as NRC Refugee Council secretary general, Digi Mart USA News: Jan Egeland is stepping down as the top leader of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC Flyktninghjelpen), after decades of work in the world’s crisis zones, the organization said in a press release on Monday.
Egeland told the board earlier this year that he will retire next summer after 13 meaningful years as leader of NRC Flyktninghjelpen. He said he will continue to give his all until his successor is in place next summer.
Egeland has led the organization since 2014 and has been one of Norway’s most prominent voices in international humanitarian work.
Board chair Kristin Skogen Lund thanked Egeland for his work over the years. She said his contribution to NRC Flyktninghjelpen and to people on the run has been enormous.
She said he has regularly visited colleagues on the front lines of the world’s largest humanitarian crises and has done everything he can to draw attention to the suffering of displaced people.
