SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS MILES STOBY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP TRUST FUND
Press Release
SG/A/670
BIO/3139
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS MILES STOBY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP TRUST FUND
19980213 Biographical Note Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of Miles Stoby as Executive Director of the United Nations International Partnership Trust Fund (UNFIP). Mr. Stoby, a national of Guyana, will assume his new post on 1 March 1998. The post will be at the level of Assistant Secretary- General, with Mr. Stoby reporting directly to the Secretary-General.UNFIP has been established by the Secretary-General as an autonomous Trust Fund to interface with the United Nations Foundation, Inc., a public charity established by Ted Turner to channel his generous and historic gift in support of United Nations causes. UNFIP will provide the coordination and programming mechanisms to facilitate the solicitation, review, analysis, execution, monitoring and reporting arrangements of United Nations projects to be funded by the Foundation.
Prior to his new appointment, during 1997 Mr. Stoby served as Deputy Executive Coordinator for United Nations Reform. Previously, from 1992 to 1996, he served as Director of the Division for Policy Coordination and Economic and Social Council Affairs in the Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development. While in that post, he was also Coordinator of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, held in Barbados in 1994.
From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Stoby was the Director of the Division of Economic and Social Council Affairs and Secretariat Services and Secretary of the Economic and Social Council. He also served as the Secretary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Brazil in 1992. He was Director-in-Charge of the Management Advisory Service and Central Evaluation Unit in the Department of Administration and Management in 1987 and 1988. From 1984 to 1987, he worked in the Department of Public Information as the Director of the Division for Economic and Social Information.
Mr. Stoby joined the Secretariat in 1978 as Senior Officer, later Principal Officer, in the Office of the Director-General for Development and Economic Cooperation, where he remained until 1982.
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Mr. Stoby served in the Guyana diplomatic service from 1966 until 1978. His overseas postings included Washington, D.C., Brazil and Guyana's Permanent Mission to the United Nations. During his two postings to the United Nations, in the early and mid-1970s, Mr. Stoby represented Guyana on the First, Second and Fifth Committees of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Committee for Programme and Coordination (which he chaired in 1975), and the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He resigned from his diplomatic service at the Ambassadorial level.
Born in Georgetown, Guyana, on 26 April 1943, Mr. Stoby received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in economics and political science from Cambridge University, United Kingdom. He is married and has three children.
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