Secretary-General Appoints Tamar Hahn of Israel Director of United Nations Information Centre in Buenos Aires

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Tamar Hahn of Israel Director of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Buenos Aires, which serves Argentina and Uruguay.  She assumes her duties on 10 February.

Prior to this appointment, Ms. Hahn was the Regional Adviser for Resource Mobilization and Partnerships at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Panama City, Panama, since 2013.  She developed strategic approaches for UNFPA resource mobilization and co-financing.  She also established and managed partnership networks and provided strategic communications support.

Between 2008 and 2013, Ms. Hahn served as the Regional Communication Specialist for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Reginal Office of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Panama City, where she developed and implemented regional and subregional communications strategies and campaigns.  From 2006 to 2008, she was a UNICEF Communications Officer based in Geneva, and from 2004 to 2006, she served as an Assistant Editor based in New York.

From 2001 to 2003, she worked as a communications consultant, including for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), where she designed and implemented communications strategies and produced information materials for media, donors and the general public.  Previously, Ms. Hahn worked as Managing Editor of The Earth Times, from 2000 to 2001, and as Associate Editor for Latin America with Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) from 1999 to 2000.

Fluent in English, Spanish and Hebrew, Ms. Hahn holds a master’s degree in journalism and Latin American studies from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel.

She has two children.