senior management group

Rachel  Mayanja, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women

On 12 August 2004, the Secretary-General appointed Ms. Rachel Mayanja as his new Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women. Ms. Mayanja follows Ms. Angela King who retired in April 2004.

Rachel Mayanja, who had been serving with the Food and Agriculture Organization, brings to the post wide experience in the normative, policy and operational work of the United Nations including peace-building and peacekeeping and inter-agency collaboration. Her leadership style as a consensus builder will augur well for the Commission on the Status of Women’s review and appraisal of Beijing + 10 and the Outcome Document of 2000.