The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed the former United States security advisor and diplomat Anthony Lake as the next Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on March 16.
Lake, 70, will replace Ann Veneman, the former US Secretary of Agriculture whose term as chief of UNICEF will expire on April 30. He joined US Foreign Service in 1962 and served as National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton in 1993. Most recently, he has worked as a professor at Georgetown University in the capital city of Washington.
UNICEF is the organization which provides humanitarian and development aid especially for children, to which United States is the biggest donor./.
Lake, 70, will replace Ann Veneman, the former US Secretary of Agriculture whose term as chief of UNICEF will expire on April 30. He joined US Foreign Service in 1962 and served as National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton in 1993. Most recently, he has worked as a professor at Georgetown University in the capital city of Washington.
UNICEF is the organization which provides humanitarian and development aid especially for children, to which United States is the biggest donor./.
