{"id":4418,"date":"2018-11-01T21:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationaldiplomat.com\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2018-11-01T21:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:05:03","slug":"itu-elects-first-woman-and-other-top-managers-to-lead-un-agency-for-technology-election-results-from-the-20th-itu-plenipotentiary-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=4418","title":{"rendered":"ITU Elects First Woman and Other Top Managers to Lead UN Agency for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dubai, 01 November 2018<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ITU elects first woman and other top managers to lead UN agency for technology Election results from the 20th ITU Plenipotentiary Conference<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_TopHeaderDisplayPanel_ctl01__ControlWrapper_RichHtmlField\" class=\"ms-rtestate-field\" aria-labelledby=\"ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_TopHeaderDisplayPanel_ctl01_label\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u200b\u200bThe 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has elected the first woman to one of five top executive positions in the history of the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Member States of ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technology, completed the elections for the posts of ITU Secretary-General, ITU Deputy Secretary-General, Director of ITU&rsquo;s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) and Director of ITU&rsquo;s Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The winning candidates are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Houlin Zhao of China was re-elected to the post of ITU Secretary-General.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Malcolm Johnson of the United Kingdom was re-elected to the post of ITU Deputy Secretary-General.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr Chaesub Lee of Republic of Korea was re-elected to the post of TSB Director.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A major stride was taken to bridge the digital gender divide, with the election of the first woman to an ITU leadership position in the Union&rsquo;s 153-year history. Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States was elected to the post of BDT Director.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai, 01 November 2018 ITU elects first woman and other top managers to lead UN agency for technology Election results from the 20th ITU Plenipotentiary Conference \u200b\u200bThe 20th\u00a0Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has elected the first woman to one of five top executive positions in the history of the organization. Member States<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/12h71.com\/?p=4418\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[2339,985,267,3536,4339,4502,4627],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-bdt","tag-doreen","tag-international-diplomat","tag-korea","tag-secretary-general","tag-tbs","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12h71.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}