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'''Robert C.Cameron Orr''' currently serves as the [[United Nations]] Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Strategic Planning<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/world/asia/11korea.html|title=North Korea Could Face New Round Of Sanctions|last=Macfarquhar|first=Neil|date=11 June 2009|work=The New York Times|page=6|accessdate=11 July 2011}}</ref> in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. He was appointed to the position by [[UN Secretary-General]] in August 2004.
 
==Career==
Prior to joining the UN, Orr served as the Executive Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at [[Harvard University]]. Before that, he was Director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.
 
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Before working for the US government, Orr served at the International Peace Academy in New York and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nairobi, Kenya.
 
==Education and personal life
Orr holds a Ph.D. and M.P.A. in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at [[Princeton University]], and a bachelor’s degree from the [[University of California Los Angeles]] (UCLA). He speaks Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
 
In 2000 he married Audrey Choi, then chief-of-staff to the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] and the daughter of children's author [[Sook Nyol Choi]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/style/weddings-audrey-choi-robert-orr.html|periodical=The New York Times|date=2000-06-11|accessdate=2011-09-30|title=Weddings: Audrey Choi, Robert Orr}}</ref>
 
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