UN Chronicle

Eduardo Ulibarri

Eduardo Ulibarri is Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations and Chairman of the UN Committee on Information.

Ann M. Veneman has been Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) since May 2005. Under her leadership, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the global “Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS” campaign have been launched. Prior to joining UNICEF, Ms. Veneman served as Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, from 2001 to 2005. She currently chairs the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition.

Frans Viljoen

Frans Viljoen is Director, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Juan Carlos Villagran de Leon

Juan Carlos Villagrán de León is Programme Officer with the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, Vienna.

Alice Vincent

Alice Vincent is Policy Officer, the World Future Council, working on the Rio+20 campaign for Ombudspersons for Future Generations at the international, national, and local levels.

Mechai Viravaidya

Mechai Viravaidya is a Commissioner of the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention and Founder and Chairman, Population & Community Development Association, Bangkok, Thailand.

Joachim von Braun

Joachim von Braun is Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (www.ifpri.org).

Aleksandra Vujic

Aleksandra Vujic is a member of Sri Madhavananda World Peace Council, Vienna, Austria, and the Australian Association Yoga in Daily Life, a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and associated with the UN Department of Public Information.

Kurt Wachter

Kurt Wachter studied Social Anthropology and African Studies in Vienna and Cape Coast, Ghana and works since 1997 at the Vienna Institute for the Development and Cooperation as the project coordinator of the Football Against Racism in Europe network.

Margareta Wahlström

Margareta Wahlström is Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations. She was Special Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance to Tsunami-affected Communities and also served as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for reconstruction and institutional development in Afghanistan and Chief of Staff to the Special Representative with the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director, International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California, Irvine.

A.R. Wickremasinghe

A.R.Wickremasinghe is Dean and Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.

R. Wickremasinghe

R. Wickremasinghe is Associate Professor at the Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.

Benny Widyono

Benny Widyono is the author of Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., New York, October 2007).

Beate Winkler

Beate Winkler was the Interim Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights until July 2007 and for nine years was Director of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, which are independent bodies of the European Union. She has also served as principal advisor to the German Federal Government’s Commissioner for Foreigners’ Issues.

Timothy E. Wirth

The Honourable Timothy E. Wirth is President of the United Nations Foundation, a public charity that supports public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and builds support for the United Nations through advocacy and public outreach. He was United States Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs and a member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

Ben Wisner

Ben Wisner is Director of International Studies, California State University at Long Beach, USA.

Pureterrah Witcher

Pureterrah Witcher is a high school journalism teacher within the Atlanta Public School system and an aspiring novelist.

Raymond O. Wolfe

Raymond O. Wolfe is Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations.

Akiko Yamamoto

Akiko Yamamoto is Regional Team Leader and Regional Technical Adviser for Africa, UNDP.

Yearbook of the United Nations

The Yearbook of the United Nations is the principal reference work on the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities.

Kandeh Yumkella

Kandeh K. Yumkella is Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and Chair, Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change.

Muhammad Yunus

Professor Muhammad Yunus is the founder and Managing Director of Grameen Bank, which operates 2,283 branches, providing credit to 6.83 million poor people in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank are the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. He has also received many international awards and honorary doctorate degrees and served on many United Nations advisory groups, commissions and committees.