by Kat Nowicke | Mar 18, 2021 | Turtle Bay
When I first joined the AMUN Secretariat, I was asked what three people, dead or alive, that I would want to have a luncheon with. At the time, I had only two people on my guestlist: Michelle Obama and Jeremy Wade. Now, nearly 6 years after being asked at my first...
by Nia Indelicato | Dec 4, 2018 | Two Point Two
[This post is a transcript of remarks delivered by the Secretary-General of the 2018 American Model United Nations Conference during the Closing Plenary Session.] Welcome to Tuesday! Congratulations—on making it here and for all you have accomplished. Over the course...
by Eldon A Winters | Jan 5, 2017 | Turtle Bay
On 1 January, Antonio Guterres took up the mantle of Secretary-General of the United Nations. While most commonly thought about as an orator and moral force, the Secretary-General also plays another important role: leading the United Nations Secretariat, the executive...
by Jacqueline E Whitt | Dec 20, 2016 | Turtle Bay
Equal parts diplomat and advocate, civil servant and CEO, the Secretary-General is a symbol of United Nations ideals and a spokesman for the interests of the world’s peoples, in particular the poor and vulnerable among them. ~“The role of the Secretary-General”...