SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NADIA YOUNES AS UNITED NATIONS PROTOCOL CHIEF
Press Release
SG/A/662
BIO/3130*
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS NADIA YOUNES AS UNITED NATIONS PROTOCOL CHIEF
19980121 Biographical Note Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Nadia Younes as United Nations Chief of Protocol. Ms. Younes, who assumed her new post on 19 January, succeeds Livio Muzi Falconi.Prior to her appointment, Ms. Younes was the Director of the Media Division, Department of Public Information (DPI).
A national of Egypt, she joined the United Nations Secretariat in 1970 in the Office of General Services, and has served with the DPI in various capacities since 1974, initially as a Press Officer in both the English and French Sections. Later assignments included that of Information Officer, from 1979 to 1980, for the World Conference of the Decade for Women (Copenhagen, 1980); Information Officer, Planning, Programming and Evaluation Unit (1981- 1988); and Spokeswoman for the President of the forty-second session of the General Assembly (1987).
Ms. Younes served as Deputy Spokeswoman in the Office of the Spokesman for the Secretary-General, a post she held from March 1988 until January 1993 when she was appointed Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Rome.
Born in Cairo in 1946, Ms. Younes holds a Master of Arts degree in political science and international relations from New York University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Cairo University.
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__________ * This supersedes Press Release BIO/2739-PI/791 of 25 January 1993.