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Gillian Sorensen
Monday, July 21, 2008
Gillian Martin Sorensen, as
Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation, is a national
advocate on matters related to the United Nations and the U.S.
- U.N. relationship. From 1997 to 2003 she served as Assistant
Secretary-General for External Relations on appointment by Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, responsible for outreach to non-governmental organizations
and to parliamentarians, the academic world, religious leaders,
and to other groups committed to peace, justice, development,
and human rights. From 1993 to 1996 Mrs. Sorensen served as
Special Adviser for Public Policy on appointment by Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali. She is an experienced public speaker,
and often represents the World Organization in the U.S. and abroad.
She also served for twelve years by appointment of Mayor Edward
Koch as New York City Commissioner for the U.N. and Consular
Corps - as New York City's head liaison with the world's largest
diplomatic community.
Gillian Sorensen is a graduate
of Smith College and studied at the Sorbonne. She has also been
a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. She continues to serve as
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and as a Fellow
at the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy. |
