Rabab Fatima elected Vice President of UN bodies' Executive Board
Bangladesh’s Everlasting Representative (PR) to the US Ambassador Rabab Fatima features been elected as Vice President of the US Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Human population Fund (UNFPA), and US Office for Project Products and services (UNOPS) Executive Board.
This will permit Bangladesh to work closely with the other board members and the leaderships of the three essential UN organs and offer them strategic guidance with their work, said the Bangladesh Objective on Tuesday.
This election comes as a demonstration of the trust and confidence that Bangladesh enjoys due to her strong legacy of working together with the UN entities and their Executive Boards for implementation of the global expansion agenda under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, it said.
Ambassador Fatima can be serving this year seeing as the President of the UNICEF Executive Plank.
The Ambassador of Bulgaria was elected as the President of the Panel at the elections held in NY on Monday.
The other Vice-Presidents are Ambassadors of holland and The Gambia.
The UNDP, UNFPA and UNOPS have specific mandates to advance the UN's production agenda at the field level.
UNDP is the most significant UN company with primary focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable production.
The UNFPA covers population and family planning issues, while UNOPS works in cross-cutting areas across peace, development and humanitarian things.
In her address at the earliest meeting of the recently elected Executive Board, Ambassador Fatima thanked the Board members because of their assist and confidence in Bangladesh’s capability to contribute to the task of the important UN agencies.
She assured them of her delegation’s whole support to their work, especially nowadays within their efforts to build again better from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rabab Fatima is a good career foreign program officer owned by the 1986 batch of Bangladesh Civil Assistance (BCS) Foreign Affairs cadre, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has been serving in her current content since 2019.
In her diplomatic career, Fatima worked in a variety of capacities in Bangladesh missions in NY, Tokyo, Geneva, Kolkata and Beijing.
At the headquarters, she served in a variety of capacities primarily in the US Wing.
Fatima also served found in lien in two international companies - the Commonwealth Secretariat found in London as the head of Human Rights (2006-2007), the International Business for Migration as the regional representative for South Asia found in Dhaka (2007-2011), and seeing that the regional coordinator and adviser for South and THE WEST Asia and regional adviser for Weather Change and Migration found in IOM’s Regional Business office for Asia and the Pacific found in Bangkok (2012-2015).
She obtained her masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Fletcher Institution of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the US, reports UNB.
