Franz Baumann (civil servant)

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Franz Baumann (born September 23, 1953 in Schramberg ) is a German former UN official who until the end of 2015 served as Assistant Secretary General and Special Advisor for environmental issues and peace missions of the United Nations. Since 2017 he has been visiting professor at New York University (Graduate School of Arts and Science, Program in International Relations)

biography

Baumann attended elementary school in Schramberg and passed his matriculation examination in 1973 at the Schramberg grammar school . He then studied administrative sciences with a focus on international affairs at the University of Konstanz and, in 1975, art history at the University of Bristol ( Great Britain ). He completed his degree in administrative sciences in 1979 in Constance and obtained his doctorate in political science from Carleton University in Ottawa (Canada) in 1992 .

His wife, Barbara Gibson, is a Canadian diplomat. From 2004 to 2008 she was Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna, 2015 Deputy Secretary General and 2016 Secretary General of the Independent Commission on Multilateralism (ICM).

Their daughter was born in 2000.

Professional career

In 1976 Baumann worked for the European Parliament in Luxembourg, in 1979 he moved to the European Commission in Brussels and in 1980 worked for the electronics company Siemens in Munich .

Baumann began his career at the United Nations between 1980 and 1982 as an Associate Expert in Nigeria for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He then worked in various departments in the United Nations Secretariat, including Management, Peacekeeping Operations and the Office of the Secretary-General. In 1993 he was the administrative director of the joint human rights monitoring mission of the United Nations and the Organization of American States in Haiti (MICIVIH).

In 2002 he was appointed Administrative Director of the Vienna Office of the United Nations ( UNOV ), in 2004 Deputy Director General of UNOV, in 2006 Deputy Executive Director of the Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and in 2007 Acting Head of the Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA).

From 2009 to 2015 he was Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations Secretariat in New York, initially for the General Assembly and Conference Organization, then coordinator for the introduction of Umoja , the new software system of the United Nations, and finally special advisor for environmental issues and peace missions the United Nations. This made Baumann the highest-ranking German UN official at the time.

He is a Senior Fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School in Berlin.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the UN System and the Advisory Board of the Center for UN Studies at the University of Buckingham, England.

Publications (excerpt)

  • How far did the Marshall Plan help? The European reconstruction program in critical lighting. In: Back then . 8th year, May 1976.
  • Plea against a refusal. In: Forum Europe. December 1978 / January 1979.
  • with Jan Ulrich Clauss: The regionalization of Belgium: arithmetic of a language dispute. In: uprising in the province. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1980, ISBN 3-593-32803-8 .
  • The bureaucratic State and economic Development in Nigeria . In: Doctoral Dissertation . Carleton University , Ottawa 1992 (English).
  • Collective psychopathology. In: Sprach-Nachrichten 1/2000.
  • Globalization and national identity. In: context. 8/2001.
  • A pragmatic idealist: Honoring Nobel Prize winner Kofi Annan. In: Structure . October 25, 2001.
  • The general renovation of the UN headquarters (Capital Master Plan). In: United Nations , December 2004, pp. 206f. online (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  • Why is Africa underdeveloped? The example of Nigeria. In: Courage . April 2012. Mut-Verlag
  • Coexistence of Languages ​​at the United Nations. In: Le jour. Université de Saint Joseph, Beirut. April 2012, pp. 5-10. online (PDF; 23.1 MB)
  • The brief renaissance of the UN peacekeeping operations after the Ice Age of the Cold War. In: Ekkehard Griep (ed.): Des Friedens General. Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30743-0 .
  • The United Nations. An inside view of the difficulties of making peace . In: Courage . No. 554, March 2014. Mut-Verlag
  • The Principle of Hope. Review of the essay by Thomas G. Weiss: Governing the World? Addressing 'Problems without Passports' , In: Academic Council on the United Nations System , 21 October 2014 online
  • The United Nations: valuable but difficult . In: Ekkehard Griep (Ed.): We are UNO - Germans at the United Nations . Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2016 ISBN 978-3-495-31138-7
  • UN Bureaucracy? No, thanks. In PassBlue, May 14, 2016; on-line
  • The United Nations Secretariat: Independent, Efficient, Competent? In Der (European) Federalist (June 17, 2016); on-line
  • The United Nations Secretariat: Independent, efficient, competent? In Der (European) Federalist (June 17, 2016); on-line
  • A sorry state of affairs: The UN Secretariat has no Climate Plan. In: PassBlue (August 2, 2016); on-line
  • UN Management - An Oxymoron? In: Global Governance (Volume 22, No. 4, Oct. - Dec. 2016); on-line
  • New Approaches to the UN in a Changing International System . In: IDN-InDepthNews UN Insider (December 12, 2016) online
  • Populism - the Morbid Symptom of a Political Crisis . IDN-InDepthNews UN Insider (March 8, 2017); on-line
  • Fabulous, Tragic Kurt Tucholsky In: The Los Angeles Review of Books, (August 19, 2017) online
  • Populism: reflex of social insecurity and symptom of a political crisis . In: Courage No. 591, July / August 2017.
  • As UN Climate Talks Convene, the Earth Veers Toward Catastrophe. In PassBlue, November 2, 2017; on-line
  • Present at the Destruction: Humanity's Success in Ruining Nature . Review of Jeff Goodell's, The Water will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2017). In Los Angeles Review of Books, (February 21, 2018); on-line
  • Climate Policy is not Rocket Science: It is much more difficult . TEDx Talk (February 22, 2018); online ; also on youtube
  • A Compelling Book on "Humanity's Success in Ruining Nature." In IDN-InDepthNews UN Insider, (March 4, 2018); on-line
  • Climate Change is the Central Challenge for Humanity . In IDN-InDepthNews (June 6, 2018); on-line
  • The Systemic Challenge of Global Heating . In International Politics Reviews, Volume 6, Issue 2 (1.10.2018), pp. 134-144; on-line
  • To Save the Earth, Deepen Incentives for a Carbon-Free World . In PassBlue, (6.10.2018); on-line
  • Why would you want to be German? In Los Angeles Review of Books, (7.3.2019); on-line
  • With William J. Ripple and Dominick A. DellaSala: The Green New Deal: Finally Climate Policy informed by Science. In Climate Home News, (March 18, 2019); on-line
  • Climate Change: The Problem from Hell. In Los Angeles Review of Books, (9.6.2019); on-line
  • Global heating: too big for politics? Keynote at OxPeace 2019: Peace in the Anthropocene, held at St. John's College Oxford, May 18, 2019; online and here
  • Global warming, placebo measures and democracy. Climate reporter, December 4, 2019; on-line
  • I think it is a waste of time to respond to climate change deniers. NRWZ, February 28, 2020; on-line
  • Corona crisis and global warming: prevention is better than cure. Climate reporter, March 17, 2020; on-line
  • With Dominick A. DellaSala and Bill Ripple, Public Health Depends on a Healthy Planet, The New Republic, April 20th 2020; on-line
  • Knowledge does not necessarily lead to action. German University Newspaper (DUZ), April 28, 2020; on-line

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website: [1]
  2. ↑ Baumann's appointment as Assistant General Secretary on May 14, 2009 ( English ) In: Secretary-General SG / A / 1184 BIO / 4082 . Department of Public Information • News and Media Division. May 14, 2009. Retrieved January 26, 2011..
  3. ↑ Baumann's appointment on September 12, 2014 .
  4. ^ Website of the Hertie School
  5. ↑ website here
  6. ↑ website here
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political official of the United Nations
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Schramberg