Ms. Fatima Mohammed-Cole is a UN official, a lawyer by background with vast experience in humanitarian affairs, spanning 25 years with UNHCR in multiple field duty stations across Africa and Asia and its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Ms. Mohammed-Cole is presently serving as UNHCR Representative ad interim in Sudan, responsible for the overall leadership and coordination of the operation and overseeing the delivery of protection and assistance to refugees and internally displaced persons. She arrived in Sudan in 2021 as Deputy Representative. Prior to her appointment in Sudan, she served as the UNHCR Representative in Liberia and Malawi. She has previously held a variety of roles, serving in protection and field operations in refugee and IDP contexts, in active emergency (conflict and disaster) and protracted situations, in Malawi, Liberia, Somalia, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Ethiopia. In Geneva, Ms. Mohammed-Cole was Senior Protection Emergency Coordinator, where she worked on policy development and capacity building, with deployments in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Jordan, Kenya, and Tanzania. Ms. Mohammed-Cole also previously served in Geneva as Senior Investigation Officer, where she worked on investigation of misconducts and capacity building of NGOs on investigation procedures.