A Special Panel hosted by the United Nations Association of New York
moderated by
Ramu Damadoran
Member of the UNA-NYC Board of Directors
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Thursday, 7 November 2024
6:00 to 6:30 p.m. | Registration + Networking
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. | Program with Q+A
7:30 to 8:00 p.m. | Reception
UNFPA
605 Third Avenue
Conference Room 4-A (4th Floor – note change of floor)
New York, NY
*** Registration for this event is now closed ***
Late requests for attendance may be sent to anicol@unanyc.org for consideration.
We are thrilled to host our annual Summer Scholars panel in person after several years of online panels. Attend on November 7 — and you’ll be inspired!
The United Nations Association of New York is holding a special debriefing panel for our Summer Scholar 2024 fellowship winners, and we're inviting everyone to meet them.
This year our selected Summer Scholars were busy working with various international offices of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Our yearly fellowships, which are fully funded by UNA-NYC, offer frequent collaborations with agencies such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), but may involve other agencies as well. The mission of the Scholars program is to foster direct knowledge and understanding of the UN and international organizations.
Please join us to meet this year's Summer Scholars, and hear about their experiences, some of the challenges of working as fellows in their assignments, as well as their contributions while being involved with an international organization. This year's session will be moderated by UNA-NYC Board Member Ramu Damadoran.
Attend and be inspired!
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More information on our 2024 Summer Scholars, including their individual blogs, can be found here.
Panel Moderator
RAMU DAMADORAN
Ramu Damodaran joined the United Nations Department of Global Communications in 1996; his responsibilities in the Department have included oversight of relationships with civil society, the creative community and celebrity advocates, publications (including as Chief Editor of the UN Chronicle), the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the United Nations Academic Impact which he was asked by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to devise and lead. He has also been secretary of the United Nations General Assembly’s Committee on Information since 2011. He completed his career with the United Nations in May 2021.
His earlier Secretariat assignments included the Departments of Special Political Questions and Peacekeeping as well as speechwriting in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. He was spokesman for the “Durban Review” human rights conference in 2009 and has fulfilled a range of speaking engagements on behalf of the Organization over his career.
As a member of the Indian Foreign Service, where he was promoted to the rank of ambassador, he served as executive assistant to the Prime Minister of India between 1991 and 1994 and earlier in the Ministries of External Affairs, Home Affairs, Defence, Planning and Human Resource Development.
Before joining government service in India, he worked as a television news anchor, radio producer and host, and university correspondent for All India Radio and the Hindustan Times Evening News. His radio feature on university students in Delhi won the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union award. Ramu also served as President of the United Nations Staff Recreation Council.