Former UNHCR representative in Angola and Mozambique

Dr. Hans Lunshof has a PhD from the University of Utrecht, where he was an academic for several years before joining the UNHCR in the early nineties. He worked for the organisation for 28 years in various legal protection positions in some of the world’s conflict hotspots among others on the Balkans and in Africa. He is the former UNHCR representative in Angola and Mozambique and an expert in Asylum, Migration and International Humanitarian Law. He also served as Head of the Liaison Service of the UNHCR for Switzerland and Liechtenstein. He is a Dutch national, now based in Portugal.