Nicholas Haysom

Nicholas Haysom
Haysom sitting for a 2009 interview with Talal Al-Haj (right)
Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 January 2021
Secretary-General	António Guterres
Preceded by	David Shearer
Special Adviser for Southern Africa
In office October 2020 – January 2021
Secretary-General	António Guterres
Special Adviser on Sudan
In office 2019 – October 2020
Secretary-General	António Guterres
Special Representative and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia
In office 1 October 2018 – 2019
Secretary-General	António Guterres
Preceded by	Michael Keating
Succeeded by	James C. Swan
Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan
In office March 2016 – October 2018
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-moon António Guterres
Preceded by	Haile Menkerios
Succeeded by	Mandate concluded
Special Representative and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
In office September 2014 – March 2016
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-moon
Preceded by	Ján Kubiš
Succeeded by	Tadamichi Yamamoto
Director for Political Affairs in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General
In office May 2007 – 2012
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-moon
Preceded by	Carlos Lopes
Head of the Office of Constitutional Support for the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq
In office 2005–2007
Secretary-General	Kofi Annan Ban Ki-moon
Chief Legal and Constitutional Adviser in the Office of the President of South Africa
In office May 1994 – 1999
President	Nelson Mandela
Personal details
Born	(1952-04-21) 21 April 1952 (age 72) Durban, South Africa
Occupation	Diplomat UN official jurist legal scholar professor

Nicholas Roland Leybourne "Fink" Haysom (born 21 April 1952) is a South African lawyer and diplomat who focuses on democratic governance, constitutional and electoral reforms and the reconciliation and peace process. Since 2021, he has been serving as the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).^[1]