World Chronicle 910: Catherine Bertini, USG for Management

Michael Littlejohns interviews Catherine Bertini, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Management, for World Chronicle program 910.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:06
• Production Date: 17 September 2003
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: CATHERINE BERTINI; JAMES WURST; MICHAEL LITTLEJOHNS; TONY JENKINS
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RESOURCES; UNITED NATIONS BUDGET; UNITED NATIONS MANAGEMENT; UNITED NATIONS REFORM
• MAMS Id: 2184057
• Parent Id: 824949

Description

"UN MANAGEMENT: BUDGET, REFORM, SECURITY"

The job of managing the United Nation's human and financial resources was given in 2002 to Catherine Bertini, an American citizen who had served for ten years at the head of the world's largest international humanitarian agency, the World Food Programme. In this edition of World Chronicle, Ms. Bertini - now UN Under-Secretary-General for Management - addresses a wide range of questions, including: How will the new security environment—after the terrorist attack on the UN in Baghdad - change the work of the Organisation? How can the ageing of the UN in New York be addressed? What is the current situation with the UN budget?

• Scripts: File; 910.pdf (34.99 KB)