Ten of the twelve candidates for UN Secretary General participated in a “debate” last night jointly hosted by al Jazeera and the President of the UN General Assembly. “Debate” is in quotes only because the candidates never directly engaged each...
My guest today Srgjan Kerim is a diplomat with the soul of an artist, who wants to become the next UN Secretary General. Karim is the former foreign minister of Macedonia, was an official in the Federal government of the...
Vesna Pusic is the former foreign minister of Croatia and a candidate to become the next UN Secretary General. She’s a sociologist by training. Politician and diplomat by practice and I caught up with her one day after she participated...
Something extraordinary took place at the United Nations this week. For twenty hours, over three days, each candidate in the race to become the next UN secretary general submitted themselves to hours of questioning by member states and civil society....
Danilo Turk is the former president of Slovenia and one of eight currently declared candidates to be the next United Nations Secretary General. He was president from 2007 to 2012 and also served as his country’s ambassador to the UN...
The race to become the next UN Secretary General just got slightly more crowded yesterday when Helen Clark, former New Zealand prime minister and the current head of the UN Development Program, tossed her hat in the ring. Clark is...
The new year marks the semi-official kickoff of the race to select the next UN secretary general. Ban Ki Moon’s second and final term expires at the end of the year and now it is up to the world —...