Kunle Adeniyi took up his appointment as Representative for Sri Lanka and Country Director for The Maldives (January 2022).

Prior to this assignment, Kunle served as the Country Representative of UNFPA in The Gambia and previously, as Head of Office in the same country. He brings nearly two decades of experience in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRH), human rights, public health, public policy, and law.

Kunle’s foray into development started as a Senior Programme Officer for Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of HIV & AIDS (NACA). He also served as Special Assistant and Head of Project Implementation Secretariat in Nigeria’s Health Ministry before returning to the NACA as the Head of Legal and Human Rights. He was a Technical Lead for both the HPDP II World Bank Credit Programme and the Global Fund HIV Grants in Nigeria.

An Alumnus of John Hopkins Centre for Communication Programs Baltimore, Maryland USA, he holds an MBA, a LLM and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree.