Dr. George Gigauri is a UN official and senior humanitarian.
He is one of the three Co-Chairs, with UNHCR and the UN Resident Coordinator, of the Strategic Coordination Group (SEG) which oversees and manages the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis response, which is the largest refugee camp in the world. He is also the Coordinator of the United Nations Migration Network that brings together key UN agencies and civil society partners working on migration policy and development.
He studied Politics & Philosophy and received a PhD in Political Science in 2015. He holds an MSc (Distinction) in Migration Studies from University of Oxford.
The essay presents a philosophical experiment to overcome death and question the very fact of one’s own existence. The core argument made is that one doesn’t really exist in the traditional sense, if our metaphysical foundations are relentlessly investigated, boldly questioned and naturally redefined.