Mr. Czaran is the Chief of the Space Applications Section at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), He also coordinates the U.N. Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), a Programme mandated by the UN General Assembly to lead efforts for resource mobilization and for space based data and technology support to countries in crises or disaster situations.
Between 1996 and 2006 he worked at UNEP/GRID-Arendal in Norway and on the implementation of the UNEPnet satellite communications project, then at the U.N. Headquarters Cartographic Section, with the Department for Peacekeeping Operations and for the UN Disengagement Observer Force in Syria.
He also supported international boundary demarcation projects for Cameroon/Nigeria, Iraq/Kuwait and Eritrea/Ethiopia.
Mr. Czaran also served as Map Centre Manager for ReliefWeb at the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs from 2006 to 2008 before first joining UNOOSA.
Between 2018 and 2021 he was seconded as Lead for the “Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development” (GRID3) Project Secretariat to the United Nations Population Fund in New York, championing UNFPA’s geospatial modernization and development of the Population Data Portal there.
Mr Czaran also represented the United Nations in specialized bodies such as ISO/TC211 and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and was also a Vice-Chair of the UN Geospatial Network for several years. He is currently chairing the CEOS Working Group on Disasters on behalf of UNOOSA.