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From 1991 to 1997 he worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Southern Africa and Washington, D.C. He was Chief Technical Adviser of the Mekong River Commission (1997–1998) before becoming Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams. In 2001 he returned to IUCN as Director-General. [3]
The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary-general and of the secretariat is laid out by Chapter XV (Articles 97 to 101) of the United Nations ...
1959: UNESCO decides to create an international list of Nature Parks and equivalent reserves, and the United Nations Secretary General asks the IUCN to prepare this list. 1961: The World Wildlife Fund set up as a complementary organisation to focus on fund raising, public relations and increasing public support for nature conservation.
Guterres became United Nations Secretary-General on 1 January 2017, following his formal election by the UN General Assembly on 13 October 2016. [44] Guterres and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shake hands, 4 November 2016. On 29 February 2016, Guterres submitted his nomination as Portugal's candidate for the 2016 UN secretary-general ...
Listed below are representatives from organizations, not sovereign states, described by the United Nations as "Other entities having received a standing invitation to participate as observers in the sessions and the work of the General Assembly and maintaining permanent offices at Headquarters." (as of 28 July 2019)
Oberle was Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Chair of the Green Economy and Resource Governance program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and is a former director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment [2] and State Secretary for the Environment. [3]
The office of secretary-general is rotated among the regional groups of the UN. Each region gets two or three consecutive terms as secretary-general. Candidates from that region are then disqualified in the next selection, and a new region gets its turn at the office. In 1976, China issued a symbolic veto against President of Austria Kurt Waldheim
Andersen was appointed Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in January 2015. [2] [26] As Director General, Andersen was responsible for IUCN's operations in its 50 plus offices worldwide [27] Under Andersen's leadership, IUCN held its 2016 World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, United States.