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Foteini Papagioti and Paul von Chamier

Foteini Papagioti is a graduate of the New York University Center for Global Affairs, specializing in global gender issues. Paul von Chamier is a research officer at the New York University Center on International Cooperation and the point person for the social protection workstream at Pathfinders Grand Challenge on Inequality and Exclusion.

TOPIC: WOMEN

Leadership of UN Missions: Halting Progress on the Road to Gender Parity

Foteini Papagioti and Paul von Chamier
• September 30, 2020

It has been a banner year for the long-overdue push to appoint women to the notoriously male-dominated leadership ranks of United Nations peacekeeping and political missions. Five out of six mission-leadership jobs in the first half of 2020 went…