Joint meeting of the Bureau of the MOST Intergovernmental Council and the MOST Scientific Advisory Committee

When :

from Tuesday 10 June, 2014
10:00
to Thursday 12 June, 2014
17:55

Type of event :

Category 6-Expert Committee

Where :

UNESCO Headquarters, Room IX, 125 Avenue de Suffren, 75007, Paris, France

Contact :

Cecilie Golden, c.golden@unesco.org

This meeting is organized following the election of the new Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council (IGC) of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme on 19 November 2013, and the adoption of workplans for the current UNESCO Programme.

It is convened to allow the Secretariat to give the MOST Bureau and Scientific Advisory Committee updated information on recently implemented and foreseen activities, and to seek their feedback and cooperation on the strengthening of the MOST Programme.

The composition of the IGC Bureau is as follows:

President: H.E. Mrs Alicia Kirchner, Minister of Social Development, Argentina.

Vice-Presidents:
- Norway (Group I);
- Slovakia (Group II);
- Ecuador (Group III);
- Malaysia (Group IV);
- Kenya (Group Va);
- United Arab Emirates (Group Vb).

Rapporteur: to be elected.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Committee are appointed in their personal capacity by the Director-General.

Numerous members of the MOST Programme have already undertaken or are foreseeing to implement activities to respond to its priorities.