Secretary-General – Ban Ki-Moon
Headquarters: New York
United Nations decided to include an Indian Academician in University Council to formulate its principles & policies, approve biennial Budget and work programme.
Tenure: Either three or six years
Total people appointed: 12 members including an Indian Academician named Radha Kumar.
About Radha Kumar:
- Aged 63, the Director General of New Delhi based think tank Delhi Policy Group
- Selected to the governing UN University Council
- Specialist in ethnic conflicts, peacemaking and peace-building
Former Positions:
- Director of the Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Jamia Milla Islamia University
- Senior Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in the city
- Three-member Group of Interlocutors appointed by the Government of India for Jammu and Kashmir
Functions of the UN University Council:
- Formulate the principles and policies of the University
- Governing the operations
- Consider and approve its biennial budget
- Work programme
Features of the Council:
Selected members of the council should serve with individual capacity and not as representatives of their country
- They should aim of achieving a geographic and gender balance in the fields of Academic, scientific, educational and cultural trends
The other members appointed to the UN University Council
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana Ernest Aryeetey
- Dean of Faculty of Law at National University of Singapore
- Simon Chesterman, lecturer at Harvard
- MIT Isabel Guerrero Pulgar of Chile
- Executive Director of Arab Reform Initiative Bassma Kodmani of Syria
- Dean of School of Public Policy and Management at China’s Tsinghua University Lan Xue
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