Why would the United Nations hire geographers?

Geographers can be incredibly useful hires due to their wide range of skills and abilities. The obvious things that most people think of geographers producing are maps. While having maps readily suited to fit one's needs is a nice thing to have for an internationally based organization like the UN, there are other traits that geographers bring to the table.

Geographers can survey land, provide demographic analysis, analyze aerial Photography, provide insight into just about anything of a spatial matter (border disputes, migration, etc.) That's just to name a few.