Patrick Michael Eba was appointed as Deputy Director of the Division of International Protection and Solutions at UNHCR in Geneva in 2021. In this role, he is responsible for the legal and policy work of the organisation for refugees and stateless persons. Eba has worked as an expert on health law and policy with academic and parliamentary institutions in South Africa, Malawi, Senegal and with UN entities. He later joined UNAIDS where, among other responsibilities, he led the organisation’s global legal and human rights work with the judiciary and parliamentary institutions. Previously, he served for 10 years as Expert Member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. From 2018 to 2021, he was the UNAIDS Country Director in the Central African Republic. Eba holds a PhD in Law (College of Law and Management Studies, UKZN, South Africa), an LLM in Human Rights and Democratization from the University of Pretoria, and a master’s in international Humanitarian Action from the University of Aix-en-Provence and the University of Deusto.