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Who Will Lead the World Next? Watch the Full Conversation

Envoy co-hosted a conversation with diplomats, campaigners and civil society at the Ralph Bunche Institute to talk about how the next UN Secretary-General gets chosen, and whether it will finally be a woman. Full video below.

"The P5 want a fixer, while the rest of the UN membership want a leader," Rein Tammsaar, permanent representative of Estonia to the United Nations, said.

The UN is heading into one of the most consequential leadership transitions in its history, and most of it will happen out of public view. On September 8, we sat down at the Ralph Bunche Institute to change that, at least for an evening.
The event was the first in a series of discussions built around our special issue, Who Will Lead the World Next? It was co-organized by Envoy Magazine, the United Nations Association of New York, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Campaign for a Woman Secretary-General, and the Permanent Mission of Estonia to the United Nations. Every attendee left with a copy of the issue.

Eli Karetny, Deputy Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute, and Ann Nicol, director of UNA-NY, opened. The panel that followed brought together three people who see the selection process from very different angles:

Amb. Rein Tammsaar, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations, on how the process looks from inside the Council.

Jean Krasno, Chair of the Campaign for a Woman Secretary-General, on the movement to elect the first woman to the UN's highest office after eighty years of men.

Jesselina Rana, lawyer and UN advisor at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and part of the 1 for 8 Billion campaign, on what civil society can actually push for in a process run by states.

Envoy Editor-in-Chief Stéphanie Fillion moderated.

Watch the full conversation: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/rec/share/cx5yeeDEdRrtkmvUPONAs9JBF2F3hn3yA-mv7iQKfedOZPqXFEn_VB5Fm5a7BRkf.Z47KAxN8vsIHhnq_

Envoy co-hosted a conversation with diplomats, campaigners and civil society at the Ralph Bunche Institute to talk about how the next UN Secretary-General gets chosen, and whether it will finally be a woman. Full video below.

"The P5 want a fixer, while the rest of the UN membership want a leader," Rein Tammsaar, permanent representative of Estonia to the United Nations, said.

The UN is heading into one of the most consequential leadership transitions in its history, and most of it will happen out of public view. On September 8, we sat down at the Ralph Bunche Institute to change that, at least for an evening.
The event was the first in a series of discussions built around our special issue, Who Will Lead the World Next? It was co-organized by Envoy Magazine, the United Nations Association of New York, the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, the Campaign for a Woman Secretary-General, and the Permanent Mission of Estonia to the United Nations. Every attendee left with a copy of the issue.

Eli Karetny, Deputy Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute, and Ann Nicol, director of UNA-NY, opened. The panel that followed brought together three people who see the selection process from very different angles:

Amb. Rein Tammsaar, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations, on how the process looks from inside the Council.

Jean Krasno, Chair of the Campaign for a Woman Secretary-General, on the movement to elect the first woman to the UN's highest office after eighty years of men.

Jesselina Rana, lawyer and UN advisor at CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and part of the 1 for 8 Billion campaign, on what civil society can actually push for in a process run by states.

Envoy Editor-in-Chief Stéphanie Fillion moderated.

Watch the full conversation: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/rec/share/cx5yeeDEdRrtkmvUPONAs9JBF2F3hn3yA-mv7iQKfedOZPqXFEn_VB5Fm5a7BRkf.Z47KAxN8vsIHhnq_

Who Will Lead the World Next? Watch the Full Conversation

Annalena Baerbock was a political star. Her successor's style is quite different: quiet, careful, a consensus-builder. With Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman taking over as President of the General Assembly, will his style help a “house on fire”?

Envoy’s contributing writer Senada Sokollu profiles the newest UN PGA in our latest issue. Link in bio.

Senada Sokollu, Contributing writer at Envoy Magazine

Dr. Lisa Vickers on why that pattern matters for the race to lead the UN, and why being honest about what the SG can actually do is the only way to judge whoever gets it fairly.

From our Secretary-General special issue. Link in bio.

#UNSG #SecretaryGeneral #GlassCliff #WomenInLeadership #UN #Diplomacy #UNGA #Multilateralism #EnvoyMagazine

“Glass cliff” is the name for when a woman gets the top job just as the building starts burning.

Dr. Lisa Vickers on the assumption running underneath the campaign: that a woman in the job would naturally speak for women, for peace, for human rights. Wanting a woman SG and expecting her to represent all women are two different things.

From our Secretary-General special issue. Link in bio.

#UNSG #SecretaryGeneral #WomenInLeadership #UN #Multilateralism #Diplomacy #UNGA #EnvoyMagazine

Are we setting a woman SG up for failure?

"In these times of crisis, this is his role, to risk something."
Patrick Rosenow, Editor-in-Chief of the German review on the United Nations, on why the UN's mediation record under António Guterres is so thin. He says he's had one major success, the 2022 Black Sea Grain Initiative, while Qatar, Turkey and Pakistan fill the space the UN has ceded.
Full piece at the link in bio.
#UnitedNations #Guterres #Diplomacy #Mediation #GlobalGovernance #Multilateralism

Is Guterres too risk-averse?

Did one of Trump’s friends just upset the UN secretary-general race?

The field of women candidates running for UN secretary-general couldn't be more diverse; they all bring a wide range of experiences and qualifications.
As Mercedes Gallego reports, as often, women running for SG appeared to be overprepared for any appearance they make; that is true for women in diplomacy, in leadership, and so many other fields.
Do you also think the women running for SG appeared hyper prepared for the job?

Women candidates: overprepared?

Infantino may have just talked himself out of the UN race.

If you care about how power actually works, save this — because this is the kind of political move people remember.

He floated a World Cup financing deal that would have shifted serious money toward Trump’s wider family. That didn’t exactly win over the people who matter.

Now Andy Burnham is openly calling for his resignation from FIFA — and that creates a brutal problem:

You can’t tell someone to step down from one job
And then hand them one of the biggest jobs in the world
And expect it to feel serious

The optics are bad. The timing is worse.

At this point, the race looks less like a campaign and more like a dive.

What do you think — can he recover from this?

From Envoy’s SG special issue — link in bio.

#UNNews #Diplomacy #Geopolitics #GlobalAffairs #NewsAnalysis

A Dive à la Ronaldo?

The UN top job is facing a smaller candidate field than in 2016 — and that says something.

People who might have run are staying on the sidelines. Even insiders are asking: why would you want this job right now?

The role is huge
The pressure is brutal
The timing is worse than usual

Sometimes the hardest positions aren’t the most prestigious. They’re the ones everyone respects — and very few want.

UN expert Richard Gowan makes the case in his opinion piece for Envoy’s SG special issue.

#UNNews #Diplomacy #Geopolitics #GlobalAffairs #NewsAnalysis

Is This the Least Attractive Job in Global Politics Right Now?