With the race for the next United Nations Secretary-General underway, CIRSD President Vuk Jeremić joined Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for a timely conversation on the future of UN leadership and multilateralism.
Drawing on his first-hand experience as a candidate in the 2016 UN Secretary-General selection process, Jeremić discussed the dynamics shaping the current race and placed them within a broader challenge: what kind of United Nations, and international order, the next Secretary-General will inherit. The conversation explored the constraints facing new UN leadership, the erosion of the existing multilateral order, and the prospects for meaningful institutional change.
The discussion, “The UN Secretary-General Race and the Future of Multilateralism,” was moderated by Maureen Page, Associate Director of the Evolving International Order at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, and brought together membe
