Hans Haekkerup held the post of Minister for Defence of Denmark since January 1993. Since graduating in 1973 with a Master of Arts and Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Mr. Haekkerup served in a variety of government posts -- as Secretary and Head of Section at the Ministry of Social Affairs (1973-1976), as Head of Section at the Ministry of Education (1976-1977) and Head of Section at the Ministry of Labour (1977-1979). He was employed as Professor at the Danish School of Administration (1977-1980) and Economist at the Civil Servants Organization (1981-1985).

He was elected a Member of Parliament in 1979 and has held several committee memberships on committees such as the Committee on Danish Security Policy, the Committee on Greenlandic Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Foreign Policy. He was a member of the Defence Committee from 1985 to 1993, and served as Chairman of the Defence Committee from 1991 to 1993.

Hans Haekkerup was born on 3 December 1945 in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. He is married to Susanne, with whom he has one son. He has three sons from his first marriage.

  

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Gary Matthews has extensive experience in peacekeeping operations and served the U.S. Government for 30 years during assignments in Germany, Poland, Vietnam, Russia, and as American Ambassador to Malta. He has also held various senior positions in Washington, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State, and as Special Coordinator for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

For the past three years, Matthews has served in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most recently, he was Deputy High Representative and Supervisor of Brcko. Prior to that he was with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as Director of the Regional Centre in Mostar, responsible for OSCE programs in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Matthews, an Army veteran, graduated from Drury College and has M.A. degrees from Oklahoma State University and Columbia University. He is married with one son, two daughters, and two granddaughters.

 

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The newly appointed Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Pillar I (Justice and Police), Mr. Jean-Christian Cady, joins UNMIK after having served 19 months with the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which has a similar mandate from the Security Council. In addition to serving as UNTAET?s Deputy SRSG, Mr. Cady was also UNTAET's Cabinet Member for Police and Emergency Service. Among his many responsibilities as the Deputy Head of Mission, he was responsible for setting up a functioning East Timorese Police Force, the East Timorese Defence Force and an independent judiciary.

Prior to his experience with the United Nations, Mr. Cady served as Inspector General of Administration in the French Ministry of Interior. From 1993 to 1999, he was Préfet of the Departments of Aveyron and Hautes-Alpes, that is, the sole representative of the State and the Government, supervising the Departments' police force and central government agencies. Overall, he has 29 years of experience with the French civil service in various senior positions. From 1975 to 1977, he also served abroad as Commercial Attaché in the French Embassy in Iran.

Mr. Cady did his post-graduate studies at the National School of Administration in Paris, and has a Bachelor of Arts in Public Law from the University of Paris and a Diploma from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. He is married and has three children.

 

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Until his United Nations assignment, Mr. Koenigs has been the Deputy-President of the Alliance for the Climate since 1993, an international NGO of which he is one of the founders. This NGO unites and strengthens the efforts of more than 600 associated municipalities from all over Europe with those of the inhabitants of the Amazon region in their endeavour to protect the world's climate and tropical rainforests.

Since 1989, he has been the Head of the Environmental Protection Department of the City of Frankfurt, responsible for environmental protection, parks, forests, garbage and sewage management, the fire department and energy-supply.

Between 1993 and 1997 he was also Treasurer of the City of Frankfurt, thus being responsible for the city's six-billion Deutsche Mark budget. During this period, he focused on systematically increasing the efficiency of public services and fundamentally modernizing the city's administration.

In 1985, together with the now German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, he created and built up the first Ministry for Environmental Protection of the German Land Hessen.

Tom Koenigs (55) was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and trained as a banker in Germany and the UK. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Berlin. He is married and has three adult children.

  

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Mr. Everts brings to his new assignment a strong knowledge of the Balkans. On 24 June, he was appointed Head of the OSCE Mission to Kosovo. Before that, he had served, since the end of 1997, as Head of the OSCE Presence in Albania, and, throughout 1997, as Head of the European Community Monitor Mission in the former Yugoslavia.

 Mr. Everts also served as Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) for Operations, responsible for "food for development" projects, as well as emergency programmes such as the large-scale food aid operation in Africa’s Great Lakes region (1993-1995). Prior to that, he served as Assistant Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and Director of the Office for Project Services (OPS), responsible for implementing small and large-scale development projects and programmes. In another assignment he was Executive Secretary of the UN Capital Development Fund.

He joined his country’s foreign service in 1968, and overseas assignments included a posting as First Secretary to the Embassy in Washington (1978-1981). Earlier, he was seconded to the International Labour Organization and served in Thailand (1970-1973).

Mr. Everts was educated in the Netherlands, the United States and India. Born in 1941, he is married and has two children.

  

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After graduating with a degree in chemistry from London University Andy Bearpark joined the UK Overseas Development Administration in 1973. Between 1973 and 1986 he was responsible for running a number of bilateral development programmes in Asia and Africa. Field postings included three years based in Bangkok with regional responsibility for Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma and Malaysia and a secondment to the FCO as First Secretary ( Aid ) in Zimbabwe.

In 1986 Andy was appointed as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and over a three year period was responsible first for Home Affairs and then for Parliamentary Affairs.

After leaving 10 Downing Street in 1989 Andy established and ran a Public Relations consultancy firm called Punchline. At the end of1990 he returned to the Public Service to be Chief of Staff to Lady Thatcher during her initial period after leaving office.

In 1991 he returned to the ODA as Head of Information and Emergency Aid Departments. Over the next six years he was responsible for running all the UK Government Emergency operations including the programmes in Bosnia, Rwanda,Northern Iraq and Somalia. Between 1991 and 1995 he was also Press Secretary to the ODA minister Baroness Chalker.

At the beginning of 1998 Andy moved to Sarajevo as Deputy High Representative with responsibility for the Reconstruction and Return Task Force, a grouping of International Organizations directed at promoting minority return in Bosnia Herzegovina.

In September 2000 he moved on to Kosovo as the UN/EU Representative with responsibility for reconstruction and economic development.