Jacob van de Velden

Experience

1. Senior Legal Officer

   United Nations

   Apr 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US

   The Critical Incident Response Section (CIRS) of the Disciplinary Accountability Service (DAS) sits within the Administrative Law Division (ALD) in the Office of Human Resources, Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC/OHR). Within CIRS, I handle a wide range of multi-discipline, highly complex, and often sensitive and/or conflicting legal matters involving issues relating to international, public, private, and administrative law, in order to address critical issues that can have serious reputational risks and/or other risks adversely impacting the Organization’s core values and norms (“critical incidents”). Within that remit, I focus on conducting the disciplinary accountability process, leading in the most serious misconduct cases to the dismissal of UN staff members. Further, I act as legal counsel representing the Organization in major disciplinary appeals of disciplinary decisions before the United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT).In addition, I provide legal advice to Senior Officials on diverse substantive and procedural questions of considerable complexity, which may include those related to administration and management, peacekeeping and other operational matters, separately administered programmes and funds, etc.