United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to appoint Mr.
Carlos Lopes of Guinea Bissau as Executive Director of the United
Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in succession to
Mr. Marcel Boisard, with effect from 1 March 2007. Mr. Lopes has been
serving since 1 September 2005 as Director for Political Affairs in the
Executive Office of the Secretary-General.
Mr. Lopes specializes in development and strategic planning. His
achievements include the establishment of a leading research institution
in West Africa (INEP) and reforming the 20- year old United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) evaluation system.
Mr. Lopes has authored or edited 20 books and taught at Universities
and academic institutions in Lisbon, Coimbra, Zurich, Uppsala, Mexico,
San Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He is affiliated with a number of academic
networks, has helped establish non-governmental organizations and was a
consultant for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), the Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency (SIDA), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the
Research and Technological Exchange Group (GRET) and Ruraltec
Switzerland. He created one of the first national working groups of the
Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa,
based in Dakar, in 1984.
After serving in the Guinea-Bissau public service, in the areas of
research, diplomacy and planning, Lopes joined UNDP in 1988 as a
development economist. He rose through the ranks occupying various
positions, including Deputy Director for the Office of Evaluation and
Strategic Planning, Resident Representative in Zimbabwe and Deputy, and
then Director, of the Bureau for Development Policy. Mr. Lopes attained
the rank of Deputy Assistant Administrator and was a member of UNDP’s
Executive Team, in recognition for the role he played in developing
UNDP’s decentralized policy advisory services and knowledge networking
systems.
Mr. Lopes has managed UNDP’s global programme, with a portfolio of $1
billion, and acted for over a year at the level of Assistant
Secretary-General. In June 2003 he became the United Nations Resident
Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Brazil, the largest UNDP
programme in the world.
Mr. Lopes has several degrees from the Graduate Institute of
Development Studies, University of Geneva, and a PhD in history from the
University of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. He speaks fluent English,
French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Source:
http://www.unitar.org/documents/C._Lopes_BN_english.pdf
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