Senior Management Group
Structure and Objectives
The Senior Management Group (SMG) is a high-level body, chaired by the Secretary-General, which brings together leaders of United Nations departments, offices, funds and programmes. It is a forum for policy related matters, planning and information sharing with respect to emerging challenges and cross-cutting issues.
Through regular meetings – including video conferencing with United Nations offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Rome, Bangkok, Beirut, Addis Ababa, Santiago and Vienna – the Senior Management Group plays a key role in strategically advancing the work of the United Nations.
Current members
The Senior Management Group is chaired by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and includes the following members:
Kamal Kishore
Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction
Movses Abelian
Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana
Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Inger La Cour Andersen
Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
Sima Sami Iskandar Bahous
Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Zainab Hawa Bangura
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi
Mourad Youssef Magdi Wahba
Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
Rosemary DiCarlo
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Rabab Fatima
High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
Tom Fletcher
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Claver Gatete
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Li Junhua
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
Jean-Pierre François Renaud Lacroix
Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations
Cristina Isabel Lopes da Silva Monteiro Duarte
Special Adviser on Africa
Najat Maalla
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children
Cindy Hensley McCain
Executive Director of the World Food Programme
Tatiana Molcean
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
Jorge Moreira da Silva
Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services
Fatoumata Ndiaye
Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services
Sanda Ojiambo
Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Global Compact
Pramila Patten
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Catherine Pollard
Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance
Anacláudia Marinheiro Centeno Rossbach
Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Catherine Mary Russell
Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund
José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs
Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Elizabeth Mary Spehar
Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding and Peace Support
Simon Emmanuel Kervin Stiell
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Tatiana Valovaya
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva and Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament
Pedro Manuel Moreno
Acting Secretary General and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Elinor Jane Britt Hammarskjöld
Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel
Yasmine Fouad
Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Diene Keita
Executive Director of United Nations Population Fund
Alexandre Zouev
Acting Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism
Vanessa Frazier
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict