Sadruddin Aga Khan, Prince

Sadruddin Aga Khan, Prince
▪ 2004

      UN official (b. Jan. 17, 1933, Paris, France—d. May 12, 2003, Boston, Mass.), as the longest-serving UN high commissioner for refugees (1965–77), coordinated relief and resettlement efforts throughout the world, including those in Bangladesh, Uganda, Vietnam, Angola, The Sudan, Burundi, Algeria, Chile, Cyprus, and the Middle East. He also worked with UNESCO, headed two environmental foundations, was humanitarian envoy to Afghanistan in the late 1980s, and, from 1992, served as UN chargé de mission. Prince Sadruddin was the younger son of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, the Aga Khan III, imam of the Nizari Ismaʿilite Shiʿite Muslim sect, and was the uncle of the Aga Khan IV.

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