In historic elections, Bogdan-Martin received the majority of Member State votes, pledging meaningful connectivity as her goal. She will be the first woman to lead the UN specialized agency in its 157-year history Announcement on: https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2022-09-29-ITU-SG-elected-Doreen... Full results on: https://pp22.itu.int/en/elections/elections-results/ Worth noting that Tomas Lamanauskas was elected to the position of Deputy Secretary General. He is also a strong advocate of dialogue, collaboration, transparency and sustainability in the wider sense. Kindest regards, Olivier On 29/09/2022 19:32, Jim Reid wrote:
And I thought I’d never see those words in a Subject: header. :-)
Doreen Bogdan-Martin has just been elected as secretary-general of the ITU. She’s also the first woman to get the job and she may well the first woman to lead a UN agency.