"Jan Egeland" is a Norwegian people/Norwegian politician, formerly of the Labour Party (Norway)/Labour party. He has been the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council since August 2013. He was previously the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch and the Director of Human Rights Watch Europe. Egeland formerly served as director of the NUPI/Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Under-Secretary-General of the UN. Egeland also holds a post as Professor II at the University of Stavanger.

Egeland was the United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from June 2003 to December 2006. Egeland was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan and succeeded Kenzo Oshima. He traveled extensively, drawing attention to humanitarian emergencies.

Egeland was also Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross. He served as State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990–1997) and was Chair of Amnesty International Norway.

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I would salute the very effective American efforts to warn the populations of the imminent danger and the very successful evacuation.

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My heart goes out to the children of North Korea.

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We have not heard of any tsunami hitting anywhere.

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I think that is stingy, really.

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I'd like to say that the United States has been ideal in the way they have responded.

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We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.

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This is a very major earthquake but it's really aggravated a thousand times by the topography. An earthquake is bad anywhere, in the Himalayas it becomes much worse.

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We are humanitarian workers, we are apolitical, impartial. We hope to be successful in our dialogue (with Pyongyang) so we can have a phased end to the program.

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This is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever measured in the amount of homes destroyed, people affected, people displaced.

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