Loraine Rickard-Martin
Loraine Rickard-Martin is a co-founder and chief executive of Compliance and Capacity Skills International, a nonprofit firm specializing in global sanctions. She is a former senior political affairs officer in the Security Council Affairs Division of the UN Department of Political Affairs. She was also secretary of the UN Secretary-General’s high-level panel on threats, challenges and change in 2003-2004; a lecturer on UN sanctions at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs; and a member of the UN Board of Inquiry into the death of two members of the UN Group of Experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is a co-author of "The Evolution of UN Sanctions: From a Tool of Warfare to a Tool of Peace, Security and Human Rights" (Springer, 2017).
- Opinion by Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • April 28, 2022
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has paused his plan to further outsource the management of the $86 billion UN pension fund’s assets to Wall Street. The plan to allow an additional 18 percent of the fund’s assets to investment…
- Categories: OPINIONS, UN Pension Fund
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- Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • December 23, 2020
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At the $79.4 billion United Nations pension fund, continuing tensions came to a head this month when the UN participant representatives to the pension board — elected representatives of 85,000 active UN staff members — wrote on Dec. 2 to…
- Categories: UN Pension Fund
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- Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • November 12, 2020
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A new governance study has confirmed what many United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund observers have long surmised: there are significant variances between the fund’s own operations and best practices and those of pension funds elsewhere. The areas reviewed…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Pension Fund
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- Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • October 10, 2019
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Since 2014, when staff members of the United Nations Pension Fund blew the whistle on serious mismanagement in its secretariat, a change in leadership has been made on both sides — assets and liabilities — of the $67.4 billion…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN Pension Fund
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- Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • August 27, 2018
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The United Nations Pension Board’s recent meeting in Rome ended with a record number of disagreements and much acrimony. The chief cause of distress was the results of the internal governance audit requested last December by the General Assembly….
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, UN Pension Fund
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- Opinion by Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • May 9, 2018
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For many years now, media attention on sexual abuse and exploitation by United Nations peacekeepers cornered the UN and pushed it toward reform. Now, the #MeToo movement has put the organization — and many other major institutions across the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, OPINIONS, Secretary-General
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- Opinion by Enrico Carisch and Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • December 1, 2017
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With only few of the current United Nations sanctions cases accomplishing their political objectives, it is not unreasonable to wonder why the system seems broken. As the 50th anniversary of the first use of this important political tool is duly…
- Categories: Libya, Nuclear Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council
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- Opinion by Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • November 15, 2017
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An important change was made to the United Nations pension fund last month, when Secretary-General António Guterres announced he was appointing Sudhir Rajkumar of India to succeed Carol Boykin as his representative for investments of the $61.5 billion fund….
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, UN Pension Fund
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- Opinion by Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • March 30, 2017
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The General Assembly resolution passed in December could not have been clearer: the United Nations pension fund has failed to deliver on both the investment side, led by Carol Boykin, and the secretariat side, led by Sergio Arvizú. The…
- Categories: OPINIONS, UN Pension Fund
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- Opinion by Loraine Rickard-Martin
- • March 2, 2017
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United Nations staff members and retirees, concerned for many years about low-investment performance by our $54 billion pension fund and unprecedented delays in benefit payments, welcomed the adoption last December of a General Assembly resolution that allayed worries about attempts…
- Categories: OPINIONS, Secretary-General, UN Pension Fund
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