OTS - UNIDO Change of Management: DG Gerd Müller succeeds DG LI Yong
2021. November 30. 11:30
Vienna, 30 November, 2021 (APA/OTS) - Gerd Müller, Germany's acting
Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, is set
to take office as the new Director General of the United Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
Müller's appointment for a four-year term was confirmed today
by the UNIDO General Conference held in Vienna. Müller will succeed
Li Yong, who led the United Nations' specialized agency driving
inclusive and sustainable industrial development since 2013.
During his two terms in office, Li led the Organization through
an important transition as its Member States renewed UNIDO's
mandate with the adoption of the 2013 Lima Declaration. The 2013
Lima Declaration highlighted the concept and the vision of
inclusive and sustainable industrial development, which was
embedded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as SDG 9,
"Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation".
Li subsequently launched the Programme for Country Partnership,
an innovative development model that builds synergies with ongoing
government and partner interventions supporting industrial
development and a model that leverages investment in selected
priority sectors.
Müller has vowed to build on the successful work of his
predecessor: "I want to thank Director General Li and the UNIDO
staff for the successful work over the last eight years". He wants
to further strengthen UNIDO by creating a global platform for
technology transfer, know-how and digitalization. The platform, he
says, "can foster green skills and technologies, expand the use of
renewable energies and open up fair access to global markets and
value chains - in close collaboration with other UN agencies,
governments, development banks, companies and investors."
He wants UNIDO to play its part in the UN Common Agenda to help
its Member States to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the Convention
on Biological Diversity, and the Beijing Declaration on gender
equality.
Müller said, "We are currently facing global challenges that
affect us all: climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing
hunger. To fight inequality, to build back better and to promote a
green recovery, we must work together and we must act now!"
He emphasized his aim is "to establish UNIDO as a leading
multilateral player in fostering green, resilient, inclusive and
sustainable industrial development through a renewed partnership
between industrialized countries and developing countries. And with
a stronger commitment from the industrialized countries".
As Federal Minister, Müller strengthened the Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development by doubling the development
cooperation budget to more than 12 billion euros and by creating
special-initiatives on "World without hunger", "refugees and
migration" and "training and jobs for the youth" - in cooperation
with private corporations, especially in Africa (Compact with
Africa, Marshall Plan with Africa).
With Müller's COVID-19 Emergency Programme of 4 billion euros,
Germany mounted an immediate and comprehensive response to support
least developed countries and middle-income countries in coping
with the social, economic and health consequences of the pandemic.
More information, including picture and video material can be
found here:
https://www.unido.org/news/unido-change-management-dg-gerd-muller-succeeds-dg-li-yong.
For further information, please contact:
Ms. Claudia Grössing, Strategic Advocacy and Communications
Administrator, Department of External Relations, UNIDO,
Email: c.groessing@unido.org
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