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Long-serving UN official named to senior position in UN development agency

Xinhua, November 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday announced the appointment of Tegegnework Gettu of Ethiopia as UN under-secretary-general and associate administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Gettu succeeds Maria Eugenia Casar of Mexico who is taking up a new position as the executive director of the Agency for International Cooperation and Development of Mexico (AMEXCID), UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters at a daily news briefing here.

"The secretary-general expresses his gratitude to Ms. Casar for her services to the world body and her role in leading change from within UNDP," Dujarric said.

Gettu is currently serving as the UN under-secretary-general for General Assembly and conference management, and has previously had a distinguished career within the UNDP, the spokesman added.

Gettu, who has been the UN assistant secretary-general and regional bureau director for Africa in UNDP since 2009, has more than 30 years of increasingly responsible management experience in the development field, at both the national and international levels, having worked in academia, government and the private sector.

Born in 1952, Gettu is married and has two children. Enditem