The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes on developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity.
An under-secretary-general of the United Nations (USG) is a senior official within the United Nations System,normally appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the secretary-general for a renewable term of four years. Under-secretary-general is the third highest rank in the United Nations,after the secretary-general and the deputy secretary-general. The rank is held by the heads of different UN entities,certain high officials of the United Nations Secretariat,and high-level envoys. The United Nations regards the rank as equal to that of a cabinet minister of a member state,and under-secretaries-general have diplomatic immunity under the UN Charter.
Achim Steiner is a Brazilian-born environmentalist who currently serves as the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and vice-chair of United Nations Sustainable Development Group.
Denis J. Halliday is an Irish diplomat. He was the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from 1 September 1997 until 1998,and earlier the Deputy Resident Representative to Singapore of the United Nations Development Programme.
Alan Claude Doss is a British international civil servant who has spent his entire professional life in the service of the United Nations,working on peacekeeping,development and humanitarian assignments in Africa,Asia and Europe as well as at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
Abdoulie Janneh is a Gambian diplomat and economist. He served as executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa from 2005 to 2012. Since leaving the UN,he has worked as executive director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. In 2018,he was appointed as chairperson of commissioners of the Gambian Truth,Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC).
Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo is a Togolese politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Togo from September 2008 to July 2012. He has also held various positions within the United Nations System,including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),the International Labour Office and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In 2022 he was elected as the 11th Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Amat Al Alim Alsoswa is a Yemeni journalist,and Yemen's first female ambassador and minister.
Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.
Peter Thomson is a Fijian diplomat and the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean,and President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2016 until September 2017. He served as Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations February 2010 to August 2017,with concurrent duties as Fiji's Ambassador to Cuba.
Ajay Chhibber is the first Director General of India's Independent Evaluation Organisation with the status of Minister of State,recently established to assess the effectiveness of India's development programs. From July 2008 to July 2013 for five years he was former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He did his schooling from St. Paul's School,Darjeeling Chhibber received his training as an economist at Stanford University,USA under a University fellowship and at Delhi School of Economics,India. He received a BA in Economics from St Stephen's College,Delhi University where he received the David Rajaram Prize for the best all - rounder in 1974.
Sukehiro Hasegawa is a Japanese academic,educator,author and administrator. He served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor-Leste and head of peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions,UNMISET,UNOTIL and UNMIT from May 2004 to September 2006. He is currently the President of the Global Peacebuidling Association of Japan,the ACUNS Liaison Officer in Tokyo,the Chair of the Hiroshima Peacebuilders Center (HPC) Council and the Personal Advisor to former president and Prime Minister JoséRamos-Horta of Timor-Leste.
Abdoulaye Mar Dieye is a Senegalese economist and public servant who has been serving as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' Special Coordinator for development in the Sahel since 2021. He previously held various positions within the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Edouard Adrien AndréWattez is a French United Nations diplomat who worked for the United Nations for more than 32 years in the Asia-Pacific,Africa and Middle East Regions in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) agency,leading assignments mainly in crisis,peace building,post-war and transition countries such as Senegal,the Fiji Islands,Rwanda,Jerusalem,Cambodia,Vietnam and Sri Lanka.
Susan McDade is a Canadian economist and energy expert. She is currently the Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Management Services at the United Nations Development Programme.
Alain Noudéhou is a Beninese diplomat who has been serving as Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and Resident Coordinator in Mali since 2021,serving alongside Special Representative Mahamat Saleh Annadif. He was previously the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations,Resident Coordinator,and Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan.
Shombi Sharp is an American diplomat with the United Nations,UN Resident Coordinator in India․
Asako Okai is a Japanese diplomat and UN official currently serving as the ambassador of Japan in Bahrain. She started her roles as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) assistant administrator,director for the UNDP Crisis Bureau,and United Nations Assistant Secretary-General in 2018. She led the corporate crisis-related work of UNDP.
Ivana Živković is a Croatian Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Assistant Administrator and Director,Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States,of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since September 2022. She is also the Director-General for Economic Affairs and Development Cooperation of Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia since 2020.
Ahunna Eziakonwa is a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and the United Nations Development Program Assistant Administrator and Director,Regional Bureau for Africa. Prior to her appointment on August 15,2018,she was the United Nations Development Program's Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia,Uganda, and Lesotho.
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