John Ging

John Ging (born 1965) is an Irish humanitarian and senior United Nations official. Since February 2011, he was served as the director of the Operational Division at the Uited Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York. In this role, he oversees the management of OCHA's field operations globally and acts as the primary point of contact for supporting Humanitarian Coordinator on behalf of the Emergency Relief Coordinator. He also serves as the principal adviser to the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs on operational matters.

Before joining OCHA, Ging was the director of Operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip from 2006 to 2011.

Earlier in his career, Ging held a range of humanitarian and peacekeeping positions in the Balkans, Africa, and the Middle East. In Kosovo, he was Chief of Staff of the Institution Building Pillar within the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Prior to that, he served for eight years as Chief of Staff with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1994 to 1996, during and after the Rwandan genocide, he worked as Regional Field Director for the Irish non-governmental organization GOAL. His responsibilities included coordination of emergency relief efforts in refugee camps affected by cholera. Between 1989 and 1994, he completed three tours of duty as a United Nations peacekeeper with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Ging began his professional career in 1983 as a commissioned officer in the Irish Defence Forces.

He holds a Barrister-at-Law qualification and is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), where he earned both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law, sociology, and political science.