Farid Zarif

Farid Zarif
Farid Zarif in 2016 in Liberia.
8th Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo
In office 3 August 2011 – 31 August 2015
Preceded by	Lamberto Zannier
Succeeded by	Zahir Tanin
Personal details
Born	1951 (1951)

Farid Zarif (Persian: فرید ظریف; born 1951, in Kabul, Afghanistan) was United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative and head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). In August 2015, he was promoted to the level of United Nations Under-Secretary-General and appointed as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to Liberia and Coordinator of the United Nations Operations in Liberia (UNMIL).^[1]