Mirjana Spoljaric Egger
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Mirjana Spoljaric Egger is a Swiss diplomat. She is Deputy Secretary-General and Deputy Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Director of the UNDP Regional Office for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She was appointed to this position by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in August 2018 and took office in October 2018.[1] From September 2022, she will be the first woman to take over the presidency of the International Committee of the Red Cross.[2]
Life and work
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger studied philosophy, economics and international law at the University of Basel and the University of Geneva. She finished her studies with a master's degree. She then worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel. In 2000, she joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, where she held various positions, including in Bern and New York. From 2004 to 2006, she taught on global governance in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lucerne.[3] She is married and has two children.
As part of her diplomatic career, she initially worked at the Swiss Embassy in Cairo and was Desk Officer for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Nuclear Safety in Central and Eastern Europe. From 2010 to 2012, Mirjana Spoljaric was posted to Amman as a senior adviser at the office of the UN Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees and Refugees (UNRWA).
Most recently, she was ambassador, head of the Department of United Nations and International Organizations. She represented Switzerland in the negotiations on the UN reforms and the UN budget, in the Security Council, in the General Assembly, in the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, in the Commission for Peace Consolidation, in the Human Rights Council and in the UN Office for Drugs and Crime.
In November 2021, the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross elected Spoljaric Egger as President of the Committee with effect from September 2022 in place of Peter Maurer. She is the first woman in this office.[4]
References
- ^ "Botschafterin Mirjana Spoljaric Egger zur beigeordneten Generalsekretärin beim UNDP ernannt". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
- ^ "ICRC elects new president". International Committee of the Red Cross. 2021-11-25. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
- ^ https://plus.google.com/+UNESCO (2017-06-28). "Mirjana Spoljaric". UNESCO. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help); External link in|last= - ^ "ICRC elects new president". International Committee of the Red Cross. 2021-11-25. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
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