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Ambassador Petersen was as appointed Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations in Geneva on 1 November 2023. From September 2020 to October 2023 Ambassador Petersen served as Assistant Secretary General, Deputy Executive Director (Management) in UNFPA, New York. He came to UNFPA from a position as Director for the Department of Migration, Conflict and Stabilization of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Petersen has over 30 years of experience within the spheres of bilateral and multilateral affairs and development. He served as the Ambassador…
Marcel A. Boisard served as Executive Director of UNITAR from March 1992 to February 2007. As of August 2001, he was also appointed, by the UN Secretary-General, as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to these appointments, he occupied the position of Director of the UNITAR European Office after having joined the Institute as “Special Fellow” in June 1980.
By the time of joining the United Nations, Boisard had already had a long record of international activities working with diplomatic and humanitarian missions and conducting academic research…