Join the UCR Alumni Association on campus for a special conversation and lunch with our 2024 Alumni Service Award recipient Manav Sachdeva '99 (Biology and Liberal Studies). Learn about his experience as a Senior Policy Advisor and Emergency Expert Personnel deployed at short notice for the United Nations Development Programme. Manav has worked for the UN and UNDP in several capacities since 2007 including as programme specialist for Asia Pacific and Arab States, Development consultant, lead advisor for capacity evaluation and gender violence training, senior advisor to Afghanistan UNWOMEN, and as a proposal writing consultant for UNDP Somalia. Manav's cross-border cooperation and peace/stabilization missions have included Afghanistan, India, Lebanon, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Guyana, Liberia, and Kosovo. He served as Chief International Officer for McCann Worldgroup in Kyiv, Ukraine from February 2019 to September 2020 and then was appointed honorary ambassador to United Nations & Allied Organizations by the Ukrainian Ad Coalition.