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October 14, 2016 @ 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Izumi Nakamitsu was appointed Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Assistant Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in November 2014. She leads UNDP’s Crisis Response Unit.
Ms. Nakamitsu has many years of distinguished service within and outside the United Nations System. She most recently served as Director of the Asia and the Middle East Division in the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). Between 2008 and 2012, she was Director of the Division of Policy, Evaluation and Training in DPKO.
Between 2005 and 2008, she was Professor of International Relations at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and during the same period she also served as a member of the Foreign Exchange Council of the Japanese Foreign Minister, and as a visiting senior advisor on peacebuilding at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Prior to this, she was Chef de Cabinet and Director of Planning and Coordination at the Stockholm-based intergovernmental organization, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) between 1998 and 2004. Earlier in her career, Ms. Namikatsu held a number of positions in the UN system both at Headquarters and in the field, including in the UN Reform Team of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Office of the UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Policy and Operations Sergio Vieira de Mello, and in UNHCR field operations in the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and northern Iraq.
This event is free and open to the public. Organized by the Princeton University American Whig-Cliosophic Society and cosponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice