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.
Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra is a Mexican biologist who served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2023 to 2024. She previously served as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from July 2008 to March 2022.
Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela is a Chilean political scientist, academic, diplomat and politician; the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile under President Michelle Bachelet; former Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator, and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme; and the former Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, to Brazil, and to the Organization of American States.
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).
Abdullah Abdel Razzaq al-Dardari is a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and the United Nations Development Program Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States. Prior to his appointment in 2023, he was the United Nations Development Program's Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan. Previously, he worked for the World Bank. He has also served in several positions in the government of the Syrian Arab Republic.
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.
Bo Asplund served as United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan. He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2007.
Moustapha Soumaré is the United Nations Deputy Special Representative in the Republic of South Sudan. Prior to this appointment of 24 December 2014 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Mr. Soumaré served as the United Nations Deputy Special Representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Jordan Ryan joined The Carter Center as Vice President for Peace Programs in 2015.
María Eugenia (Gina) Casar is a Mexican civil servant who serves as the Executive Director of the Mexican Agency of International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID). In 2020, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Qu Dongyu appointed her as WFP Senior Adviser at the Assistant Secretary-General level.
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).
M’Baye Babacar Cissé of Senegal is Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI). He is also the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian Coordinator and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in the country. He was appointed to this position by the United Nations Secretary-General on 4 October 2013.
Haoliang Xu is the United Nations(UN) Under-Secretary-General since 2023, Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) since 2023, and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support of UNDP in New York since 2019.
Marta Ruedas is a United Nations civil servant who has worked in many countries around the world, initially with the United Nations Development Programme, including Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Georgia, Nepal, Mongolia and Mexico, as well as at its headquarters in New York. The organization assists countries in reaching their targets in economic and social development. In 2015 she was the Country Director of the UNDP in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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.
Shombi Sharp is an American diplomat with the United Nations, UN Resident Coordinator in India․
Thelma Awori is a Ugandan professor, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and feminist. She was born on March 25, 1943, in Monrovia, Liberia and came to Uganda in 1965. She is a former Uganda People's Congress diehard, who defected to the Movement. She is an individual African feminist who believes in justice for women and the validity of women’s perspectives. She has found an extremely high prevalence of internalized oppression due to religion and socialization.
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.
Shoko Noda is a Japanese United Nations official currently serving as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator, and Director of the Crisis Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). With a career spanning over 25 years in the United Nations system, she spearheaded her expertise in peacebuilding and management.
