{"id":301904,"date":"2018-08-28T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301904"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:14:01","slug":"un-official-appoints-s-tripathi-of-india-as-assistant-secretary-general-of-un-environment-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/un-official-appoints-s-tripathi-of-india-as-assistant-secretary-general-of-un-environment-body\/","title":{"rendered":"UN official appoints S. Tripathi of India as Assistant Secretary-General of UN environment body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301906 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/S-tripathi-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/S-tripathi-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/S-tripathi-584x420.jpg 584w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/S-tripathi.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/>United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres on August 28 announced the appointment of Satya S. Tripathi of India as Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, leading agency at the world body focussed on environment). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">S Tripathi will succeed Elliott Harris of Trinidad and Tobago. He was previously serving as the Director and Executive Head of the UN Office for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also participated as Chair of the Committees on Laws and Treaties for the United Nations-mediated Cyprus unification talks in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since 2017 he served as Senior Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at UNEP.\u00a0\u00a0A lawyer and development economist with more than 35 years of experience, S. Tripathi has worked for the UN since 1998 in Europe, Asia and Africa on strategic assignments in sustainable development, human rights, democratic governance and legal affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He holds honours, bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in commerce; and bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in law from Berhampur University, India.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres on August 28 announced the appointment of Satya S. Tripathi of India as Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, leading agency at the world body focussed on environment). S Tripathi will succeed Elliott Harris of Trinidad and Tobago. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[4444,4445,1391,2812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301907,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301904\/revisions\/301907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}