ethical standards
VOLUNTARY PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
AND DECLARATION OF INTEREST STATEMENTS
“Because I believe in leadership from the top, I have made complete, public disclosure of my assets -- in a way that no SG has done before. I have been loud and clear about honesty: our UN will not tolerate corruption or abuse of power.”
Secretary-General's remarks to UN Senior Officials at Turin Retreat, Italy (Friday, 31 August 2007)
The UN Ethics Office is mandated to administer the financial disclosure programme in accordance with the Secretary-General's bulletin on financial disclosure and declaration of interest statements (ST/SGB/2006/6), which came into force on 01 May 2006.
The primary purpose of the UN financial disclosure programme is to ensure that potential conflicts of interest arising from staff members' financial holdings, private affiliations or outside activities can be identified, and advice provided as to how best to manage any potential conflicts of interests in the best interests of the UN.
Staff members are required to complete and submit their confidential financial disclosure or declaration of interest statement on an annual basis (every March) in respect of the previous calendar year. The following categories of staff are required to participate in the programme:
- All staff members at Director level and above;
- All staff members who are procurement officers, or whose principal duties are the procurement of goods and services for the UN;
- All staff members whose principal duties relate to the investment of the assets of the UN, the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund or of any accounts for which the UN has fiduciary or custodial responsibility;
- All staff members who have direct access to confidential procurement or investment information; and,
- All staff members of the Ethics Office.
Both the Secretary-General, Ban-Ki moon, and Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, made public their financial disclosure statements in 2007 following their submission and review (please click here for more). The Secretary-General has encouraged his senior officials (at the grade of Under Secretary-General [USG] and Assistant Secretary-General [ASG]) to follow his lead and make public, on a voluntary basis, their confidential financial disclosure or declaration of interest statement.
Public disclosure is not a requirement of the UN Financial Disclosure Programme and is done so on a voluntary basis. Both Staff Regulation 1.2 (n), as amended by GA Resolution A/RES/60/238, and ST/SGB/2006/6 Section 8 state that the statements shall remain confidential and may only be used by other parties with the authority of the Secretary-General.
However, public disclosure is considered to be an important voluntary initiative as it demonstrates that UN staff members understand the importance of the general public and UN Member States being assured that, in the discharge of their official duties and responsibilities, staff members will not be influenced by any consideration associated with his/her private interests.
Please note that given the multi-cultural environment of the UN and the often security sensitive locations where UN staff are either working or come from, full public disclosure may not always be a viable or sensible option for certain staff members.
For more detailed information on the ‘Policy on Voluntary Public Disclosure by UN staff members' and the principles applied therein, please click here.
Each voluntary public disclosure statement (PDF
) is made following notification from the PricewaterhouseCoopers Review Team to the applicable staff member, informing him/her that they have complied with the 2007 Financial Disclosure Programme and that their review has been finalized. Please note that in accordance with paragraph 7.1 of ST/SGB/2006/6, a staff member’s disclosure for 2007 relates to the period 1 January 2006 – 31 December 2006.
Below is the current list of those UN officials who have accepted to participate in the Policy on Voluntary Public Disclosure.
In some cases, the link to the disclosure summary document itself is not yet available. This is due mostly to the time required by the Ethics Office to prepare the public disclosure summary document for each staff member, after having received the staff member’s confidential financial disclosure document from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The remaining disclosure summaries will be posted as they become available.
List of UN officials
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- Abdi, Omar – Deputy Executive Secretary, UNICEF
- Ahmed Obaid, Thoraya – Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director, UNFPA
- Adlerstein, Michael – Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, CMP
- Ahlenius, Inga-Britt – Under-Secretary-General, OIOS
- Ahtisaari, Martti – Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Future Status Process for Kosovo
- Akasaka, Kiyotaka – Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information
- Alsoswa, Amat – Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Arab States
- Angelo, Jose Victor – Executive Representative of the Secretary-General, UNIOSIL
- Anyidoho, Henry – Deputy Joint AU-UN Special Representative (designate), UNAMID
- Arnault, Jean – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Georgia and Head of Mission, UNOMIG
- Arrukban, Abdul Aziz – Special Humanitarian Envoy, OCHA
- B
- Ban, Ki-moon – Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Barcena, Alicia – Under-Secretary-General for Management
- Beagle, Jan – Deputy Director-General, UNOG
- Belka, Marek – Executive Secretary, ECE
- Bjork-Klevby, Inga – Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UN-HABITAT
- Brammertz, Serge – Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
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- Charpentier, Georg – Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, UNOCI
- Cheng-Hopkins, Judy – Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, UNHCR
- Choi, Soon-Hong – Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer
- Cochemé, Bernard – Chief Executive Officer, UNJSPF
- Coomaraswamy, Radhika – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
- Costa, Antonio Maria – Director General, UNOV and Executive Director, UNODC
- Cravero-Kristoffersson, Kathleen – Assistant Administrator and Director Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, UNDP
- Cruz, Carlos – Force Commander, MINUSTAH
- D
- da Costa, Luiz Carlos – Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, MINUSTAH
- Deng, Francis – Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
- Dervis, Kemal – Administrator, UNDP
- Desai, Nitin Dayalji – Special Advisor, World Summit on the Information Society
- Diarra, Cheick Sidi – High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
- Dieng, Adama – Assistant Secretary-General/Registrar, ICTR
- Djoghlaf, Ahmed – Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UNEP
- Doss, Alan – Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head, MONUC
- Duarte, Sergio de Queiroz – High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
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- Egeland, Jan – Special Advisor, Prevention and Resolution of Conflict
- Eliasson, Jan K. – Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Darfur
- Ennifar, Azouz – Acting Special Representative to the Secretary-General on Eritrea and Ethiopia
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- Francis, Patricia – Executive Director, International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO
- G
- Gaye, Babacar – Force Commander, MONUC
- Gnacadja, Luc-Marie – Executive Secretary, UNCCD
- Goethel, Dieter – President, XXVII Session of the Staff-Management Coordination Committee
- Gordon, Ian – Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)
- Grandi, Filippo – Deputy Commissioner-General, UNRWA
- Graziano, Claudio – Force Commander, UNIFIL
- Grynspan, Rebeca – Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator and Regional Director of UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean
- Guehenno, Jean-Marie – Under-Secretary-General, DPKO
- Guterres, Antonio – High Commissioner for Refugees
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- Han, Seung-soo – Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Climate Change
- Haq, Ameerah – Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan
- Harston, Julian – Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Western Sahara, Head of Mission MINURSO
- Heyzer, Noeleen – Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, ESCAP
- Holmes, John – Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
- Holthuis, Hans – Registrar, ICTY
- Houngbo, Fossoun Gilbert – Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Africa
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- Jallow, Hassan – Prosecutor, ICTR
- Janneh, Abdoulie – Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, ECA
- Jenks, Bruce – Assistant Administrator and Director, Partnerships Bureau, UNDP
- Jilke, Wolfgang – Force Commander, UNDOF
- Johnson, Hilde – Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
- Johnson, Larry D. – Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs
- Jomo, Kwame Sundaram – Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, DESA
- K
- Kallings, Lars – Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe
- Kang, Kyung-wha – Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR
- Khare, Atul – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste and Head of Mission of UNMIT
- Kim, Won-soo – Deputy Chef de Cabinet, Assistant Secretary-General, EOSG
- Kjørven, Olav – Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP
- Koning AbuZayd, Karen –Commissioner-General, UNRWA Gaza
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- Landey, Deborah – Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS
- Lopes, Carlos – Executive Director, UNITAR
- Lute, Jane Holl – Assistant Secretary-General, DFS
- M
- Machinea, Jose Luis – Executive Secretary, ECLAC
- Mahmoud, Youssef – Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for Burundi and Head, BINUB
- Malcorra, Susana – Deputy Executive Director (Administration), WFP
- Martin, Ian – Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal and Head of UNMIN
- Mattsson, Jan – Executive Director, UNOPS 1
- Mayanja, Rachel – Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
- McAskie, Carolyn – Assistant Secretary-General, Peacebuilding Support Office
- Melkert, Adrianus – Associate Administrator, UNDP
- Mengesha, Yohannes – Assistant Secretary-General, DGACM
- Mensa-Bonsu, Henrietta – Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Operations and Rule of Law, UNMIL
- Michel, Nicolas – Under-Secretary-General, OLA
- Mtengeti-Migiro, Asha-Rose – Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Moleko, Lebohang K. – Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Ethiopia/Eritrea
- Moller, Michael – Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of Mission, UNFICYP
- Mountain, Ross – Deputy Special Representative for the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Moussa, Abou – Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, ONUCI
- Mulet, Edmond – Assistant Secretary-General, DPKO
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- Nambiar, Vijay – Chef de Cabinet, Under-Secretary-General, EOSG
- Nimetz, Matthew – Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Greece-FYROM talks
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- Obeng, Seth – Representative to the United Nations, Greentree Agreement
- Obiakor, Chikadibia – Force Commander, UNMIL
- Ordzhonikidze, Sergei – Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for the Conference on Disarmament and Director-General, UNOG
- Orr, Robert – Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning, EOSG
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- Pascoe, B. Lynn – Under-Secretary-General, DPA
- Pedersen, Geir – Special Coordinator of the Secretary-General for Lebanon at the level of Under-Secretary-General
- Piot, Peter – Executive Director, UNAIDS
- Powell, John – Deputy Executive Director of the Fundraising and Communications Department, WFP
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- Qazi, Ashraf – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan
- R
- Reed, Joseph – Special Advisor to the Secretary-General
- Reske-Nielsen, Finn – Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Governance Support, Development and Humanitarian Coordination
- Riza, Iqbal – Special Adviser to the Secretary-General
- Ruecker, Joachim – Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission, UNMIK
- Ryan, Jordan – Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Recovery and Good Governance for Liberia
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- Sadik, Nafis – UN Special Envoy of the SG for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific
- Sha, Zukang – Under-Secretary-General, DESA
- Shaaban, Shaaban – Under-Secretary-General, DGACM
- Sheeran, Josette – Executive Director, WFP
- Sidibe, Michel – Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS
- Simonen, Mari – Deputy Executive Director (Management), UNFPA
- Smith, Mike – Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED)
- Steiner, Achim – Executive Director, UNEP
- Sutherland, Peter – Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Migration
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- Titov, Dmitry – Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions, DPKO
- U
- Udovicki, Kori – Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States
- V
- van Walsum, Peter – Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara
- Veneman, Ann – Executive Secretary, UNICEF
- Veness, David – Under-Secretary-General, DSS
- von Hebel, Herman – Registrar, Special Court for Sierra Leone
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- Yuge, Akiko – Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau of Management, UNDP
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- Zerihoun, Taye-Brook – Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, UNMIS