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Earle Courtenay Rattray
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Volker Türk
Under-Secretary-General for Policy
Selwin Charles Hart
Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition
Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED)
Weixiong Chen
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Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov
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Oscar Fernandez-Taranco
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Imran Riza
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William David Gressly
Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
Liu Zhenmin
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Navid Hanif
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Maria-Francesca Spatolisano
Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs and Acting Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology
Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM)
Movses Abelian
Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management
Cherith Ann Norman Chalet
Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management
Department of Global Communications
Melissa Fleming
Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications
Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC)
Catherine Pollard
Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance
Martha Helena Lopez
Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources
Chandramouli Ramanathan
Controller, Assistant Secretary-General for Programme Planning, Finance and Budget
Department of Operational Support (DOS)
Atul Khare
Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support
Lisa M. Buttenheim
Assistant Secretary-General for Support Operations
Christian Francis Saunders
Assistant Secretary-General for Supply Chain Management
Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance - Department of Operational Support
Bernardo Mariano Joaquim Junior
Chief Information Technology Officer
Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA)
Rosemary A. DiCarlo
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Elizabeth Mary Spehar
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support
Department of Peace Operations( DPO)
Jean-Pierre François Renaud Lacroix
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations
Alexandre Zouev
Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions
General Birame Diop
Military Adviser
Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs - Department of Peace Operations
Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee
Assistant Secretary-General for Africa
Miroslav Jenča
Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas
Mohamed Khaled Khiari
Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific
Department of Safety and Security (DSS)
Unaisi Lutu Vuniwaqa
Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and Security
Gilles Michaud
Under-Secretary-General for Safety and Security
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Martin Griffiths
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Joyce Cleopa Msuya Mpanju
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator
Muhannad Ibrahim Ahmed Hadi
Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis
Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA)
NAKAMITSU Izumi
High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Nada Youssef A. Al Nashif
Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ilze Brands Kehris
Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights and Head, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in New York
Oficina de Servicios de Supervisión Interna
Fatoumata Ndiaye
Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services
Benjamin Gordon Robert Swanson
Assistant Secretary-General for Office of Internal Oversight Services
Office of Legal Affairs (OLA)
Miguel de Serpa Soares
Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and UN Legal Counsel
Stephen D. Mathias
Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA)
Cristina Isabel Lopes da Silva Monteiro Duarte
Special Adviser on Africa
Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG)
Alice Wairimu Nderitu
Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
Office of the Victims' Rights Advocate (OVRA)
Jane Frances Connors
Victims' Rights Advocate
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG/CAAC)
Virginia Gamba de Potgieter
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG/SVC)
Pramila Patten
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children (SRSG/VAC)
Najat Maalla
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD)
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis
Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
MIZUTORI Mami
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Inger La Cour Andersen
Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
Maria Ligia Do Rosario Noronha
Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Maimunah Mohd Sharif
Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and United Nations Office at Vienna (UNODC/UNOV)
Ghada Fathy Ismail Waly
Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna
United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)
Tatiana Valovaya
Director-General of the United Nations at Geneva
Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)
Heidi Schroderus-Fox
Acting High Representative
United Nations Ombudsman (UNOMS)
Shireen Lillian Dodson
United Nations Ombudsman
United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON)
Zainab Hawa Bangura
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Vera Songwe
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe( ECE)
Olga Algayerova
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Mario Cimoli
Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana
Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Rola A. A. H. Dashti
Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Field Operations
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Huang Xia
Special Envoy
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa
Hanna Serwaa Tetteh
Special Envoy
Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Mozambique
Mirko Manzoni
Personal Envoy
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar
Noeleen Heyzer
Special Envoy
Special Coordinator for development in the Sahel
Abdoulaye Mar Dieye
Special Coordinator
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria
Geir O. Pedersen
Special Envoy
Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara
Staffan de Mistura
Personal Envoy
Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen
Hans Grundberg
Special Envoy
United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH)
Helen Ruth Meagher La Lime
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti
Ingeborg Ulrika Ulfsdotter Richardson
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)
Alexander Ivanko
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara and Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA)
Valentine Rugwabiza
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central African Republic and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic
Denise Brown
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
Lizbeth Anne Cullity
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
Lieutenant General Daniel Sidiki Traore
Force Commander
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
El Ghassim Wane
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Mali and Head of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
Alain Wilfrid Noudéhou
Deputy Special Representative, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
Daniela Kroslak
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
Lieutenant General Cornelis Johannes Matthijssen
Force Commander
United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
Bintou Keita
Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bruno Lemarquis
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator
Khassim Diagne
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Protection and Operations
Lieutenant General Marcos De Sá Affonso Da Costa
Force Commander
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
Ramiz Alakbarov
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
Markus Potzel
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (Political)
United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
Jeanine Antoinette Plasschaert
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)
Colin William Stewart
Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
Major General Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz
Head of Mission and Force Commander
Jack Christofides
Deputy Head of Mission
United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA)
Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr
Acting Head of Mission and Force Commander
United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS)
Volker Perthes
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan
Khardiata Lo Ep Ndiaye
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
United Nations Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA)
Vivian van de Perre
Deputy Head of Mission and Deputy Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC)
Major General (retired) Michael Beary
Chair of the Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) and Head of the United Nations Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA)
United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
Caroline Ziadeh
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
Barrie Lynne Freeman
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
Nicholas Roland Leybourne Haysom
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan
Sara Beysolow Nyanti
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
Guang Cong
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (Political)
Lieutenant General Mohan Subramanian
Force Commander
United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
José Eladio Alcaín
Head of Mission and Chief Military Observer for the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan
United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU)
Parfait Onanga-Anyanga
Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the African Union and Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union
United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS)
Annadif Khatir Mahamat Saleh
SRSG for West Africa and the Sahel and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel
Giovanie Biha
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA)
Natalia Gherman
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Asia and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia
United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions (UNRGID)
Ayşe Cihan Sultanoğlu
United Nations Representative
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)
Tor Wennesland
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Lynne Elizabeth Hastings
Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL)
Joanna Wronecka
Special Coordinator for Lebanon
Najat Rochdi
Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)
Georgette Denise Gagnon
Assistant Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
Raisedon Zenenga
Assistant Secretary-General and Mission Coordinator
United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)
James Christopher Swan
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia
Adam Abdelmoula
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
Anita Kiki Gbeho
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS)
Lisa Filipetto
Head of the United Nations Support Office in Somalia
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)
Major General Patrick Gauchat
Head of Mission and Chief of Staff
UN Verification Mission in Colombia
Carlos Ruiz Massieu
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia
Raúl Yamandu Rosende Rodriguez
Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
Funds and Programmes
United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)
Achim Steiner
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Usha Rao-Monari
Associate Administrator
Khalida Bouzar
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS)
Angelique Crumbly
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Management Services
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC)
Ahunna Eziakonwa
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA)
Luis Felipe López-Calva
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC)
Ulrika Modeer
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA)
OKAI Asako
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Crisis Bureau
Kanni Wignaraja
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP)
Haoliang Xu
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (RBPPS)
United Nations Population Fund(UNFPA)
Natalia Kanem
Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund
Ib Petersen
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Management)
Diene Keita
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Programme)
United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF)
Catherine Mary Russell
Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund
Omar Abdi
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Programmes)
Fayaz King
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Field Results and Innovation)
Hannan Sulieman
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Management)
World Food Programme (WFP)
David Muldrow Beasley
Executive Director of the World Food Programme
Amir Mahmoud Abdulla
Assistant Secretary General, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer
Manoj Juneja
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Executive Director, Chief Financial Officer (Resource Management and Accountability)
Valerie Guarnieri
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Executive Director (Operations Services)
Ute Maria Klamert
Assistant Executive Director (Partnerships and Governance)
Ibrahima Cheikh Diong
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Director-General, African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group
Other Entities
United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB)
Simona Petrova
Director, Chief Executives Board (CEB) Secretariat and Secretary of the CEB
United Nations Ethics Office
Elia Armstrong
Director
International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism
Catherine Marchi-Uhel
Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law Committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 (IIIM)
Independent Mechanism for Myanmar
Nicholas Koumjian
Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar est by the HRC in res 39/2 of 27 Sept 2018, to Collect, Consolidate, Preserve and Analyse Evidence of the Most Serious Int'l Crimes and Violations of Int'l Law C'tted by Myanmar since 2011 (IIMM)
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT)
Serge Brammertz
Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT)
Abubacarr Marie Tambadou
Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT)
International Trade Centre (ITC)
Pamela Rosemarie Coke-Hamilton
Executive Director
Office of Administration of Justice (OAJ)
Alayne Frankson-Wallace
Executive Director
Special Adviser to head the Investigative Team to support domestic efforts to hold ISIL (Da'esh) accountable for acts that may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed in Iraq
Christian Dieter Helmut Ritscher
Special Adviser and Head
Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)
David Tolbert
Registrar, Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)
Coordinator of the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
Gerda Verburg
Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Winifred Karagwa Byanyima
Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Ibrahim Thiaw
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC)
Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Ovais Sarmad
Deputy Executive Secretary
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)
Sanda Ojiambo
Assistant Secretary-General
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Filippo Grandi
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Kelly Tallman Clements
Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
Gillian Triggs
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
Raouf Mazou
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)
Pedro Antonio Guazo Alonso
Representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
Rosemarie McClean
Chief Executive of Pension Administration
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
Niklas Hedman
Acting Director
United Nations Office for Partnership (UNOP)
Annemarie Hwa Hou
Executive Director
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
Jens Christian Wandel
Acting Executive Director
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
Leni Stenseth
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Commissioner-General
Philippe Lazzarini
Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
Sima Sami Iskandar Bahous
Executive Director of UN-Women
Anita Bhatia
Deputy Executive Director for Resource Management, Sustainability and Partnerships
Åsa Charlotte Regnér
Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support, UN System Coordination and Programme Results
Research and Training
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
Antonia Marie De Meo
Director
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
Robin Geiss
Director
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
Nikhil Seth
Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Paul Ladd
Director
United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)
Jafar Javan
Director
United Nations University (UNU)
David M. Malone
Rector of the United Nations University
SHIRAHASE Sawako
Senior Vice-Rector