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Kenya’s Mukhisa Kituyi becomes the UNCTAD Secretary General
Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi – Incoming Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Kenya’s Mukhisa Kituyi is the new Secretary-General of UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Kituyi who had earlier this year been nominated to the position by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, was ratified as the head of UNCTAD by the General Assembly.
He will serve for a term of four years beginning September 1, 2013.
According to a statement from the UN Secretary General’s office a combination of “proactive leadership and strategic management with hands-on experience in the global trading system.”
Kituyi, will become the tenth Secretary General of UNCTAD, he has served as Kenya’s minister of trade and industry under the administration of the recently retired president Mwai Kibaki. He is presently a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington and chief executive of the Kenya Institute of Governance in Nairobi, which focuses on the links between academic and policy research and public policy.
He will become the first Kenyan to head a UN agency.
The UNCTAD was created in 1964 as a result of calls by developing countries to have an agency that would tackle growing imbalances in trade and business between these nations and the developed world.
