Andrew Grene, UN Official with University of Chicago Ties, Among Victims of Haiti Earthquake

by Gary Kopycinski on February 14, 2010

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Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Andrew Grene, 44, a senior United Nations official in Haiti with longstanding ties to the University of Chicago community, was among those killed in the Jan. 13 earthquake, officials with the UN and the Irish government said Tuesday.

Through his career in public service, Grene was “a true humanitarian,” said Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, TD, in a statement Tuesday.

Grene, who graduated from the College in 1987 with a B.A. in…