Franz Baumann

From 2017 to 2021, he was a visiting research professor at New York University (Graduate School of Arts and Science, Program in International Relations[1]) and is now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Baumann was born in Schramberg, where he received his Abitur in 1973 from Gymnasium Schramberg.

He then worked in various departments at the United Nations Secretariat, including those of management and peacekeeping, and in the Office of the Secretary-General.

In 1993 he was chief administrative officer of the joint United Nations/Organization of American States Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Haiti (MICIVIH).

In 2009 he was appointed assistant secretary-general for General Assembly and conference management at the United Nations Secretariat.

He is the President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System,[5] an Executive Editor of Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development [1] and a member of the Board of Advisers of the Centre for United Nations Studies at the University of Buckingham (England).