| | Mr. Apakan received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Ankara University and earned a master s degree in economics at the Aegean University in Izmir, Turkey in 1970 |
| 1971 | He joined the Foreign Ministry |
| 1975 | Second Secretary in the General Directorate of Political Affairs |
| Second Secretary at the Embassy in Vienna |
| 1978 | First Secretary in Kuwait |
| 1980 | Head of Section in the Department of Middle East and Africa |
| 1982 | Counsellor of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Geneva Office |
| 1987 | Head of the Department of Bilateral Economic Relations |
| 1992 | Deputy Director General for Cyprus and Greece in the Foreign Ministry |
| 1996 | Appointed Ambassador in northern Cyprus by the Turkish Government |
| 2004-2006 | Deputy Under-Secretary for Bilateral Political Affairs |
| 2006-2009 | Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey |
| since 2009 | Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations |
| | His Excellency Lazarous Kapambwe was elected sixty-seventh President of the Economic and Social Council in January 2011. Ambassador Kapambwe is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Zambia to the United Nations in New York since 18 June 2007. Mr. Kapambwe served as co-facilitator of the Ad-Hoc Open Ended Working Group of the General assembly on the Implementation of the Outcome of the Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis in 2009-2010. |
| | Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Kapambwe served as the Ambassador of Zambia to several countries. Prior to bilateral and multilateral postings, Mr. Kapambwe held a variety of senior posts in his Government. |
| | During his career, Mr. Kapambwe represented Zambia in major multilateral and regional meetings of the United Nations, Organization of African Unity, African Union, Southern African Development Community (SADC), and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Great Lakes region and the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD). |
| | Mr. Kapambwe, obtained a bachelor s degree in political economy from the University of Zambia; holds a post-graduate diploma in international relations from Nairobi University, Kenya; and received a certificate in contemporary American politics from New York University in May 1988. |
| | Terje Rød-Larsen has been President of the International Peace Institute since January 2005. He serves concurrently as the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559 (2004). He began his career as an academic, teaching sociology, political science, and philosophy at the Universities of Bergen and Oslo, before establishing the Fafo Institute for Applied Sciences in Oslo in 1981. As Director of Fafo, he initiated a research project into the living conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which led to a request by the PLO in 1992 that he help establish a secret channel for negotiations between the PLO and the Government of Israel. The subsequent talks between Israelis and Palestinians concluded with the Oslo Accords and the signing of the Declaration of Principles at the White House on September 13, 1993. |
| | In 1993, he was appointed Ambassador and Special Adviser for the Middle East Peace process to the Norwegian Foreign Minister. In mid-1994, he was appointed United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories at the rank of Under-Secretary-General. In 1996, he became Norwegian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Planning and Cooperation, before re-joining the United Nations. From 1999 to December 2004, he served as UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, holding the rank of Under-Secretary-General |
| 1969-1975 | FU - Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1971-1972 | LSE - London School of Economics, London, UK |
| 1977-1978 | ENA - Ecole Nationale de Administration, Paris, France |
| 1975-1976 | DIE - German Institute for Development |
| 1978-1980 | Junior Professional Officer, United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA |
| 1980-1982 | Programme Officer, United Nations Development Programme, Port-au-Price, Haiti |
| 1983-1987 | Assistant Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| 1987-1989 | Deputy Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran |
| 1988 | Special Mission through Afghanistan "SALAM 3" , United Nations |
| 1989-1991 | Chief of Mission, Operation Salaam, Kabul, Afghanistan |
| 1991-1992 | Special assignments for the Special Humanitarian Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Kuwait - Iraq conflict |
| 1992-1999 | United Nations Resident Coordinator, United Nations Development Programme, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran |
| 1995-1998 | Special missions in support of 6+2 Talks |
| 1998 | Special mission to Talibn-held Kandahar |
| 1999-2000 | Director for Operations and Analysis, UNODC - United Nations Drug Control Programme, Vienna, Austria |
| 2001-2002 | Special mission in support of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan |
| 2001-2005 | Director for Management and Finance, OSCE |
| 2003-2005 | Support to Martti Ahtisari’s ICT Initiative |
| 2005 | Special Mission to Somalia |
| 2005-2007 | Principle Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for Political Affairs to Iraq |
| 2008 | Special mission to Afghanistan, ASG |
| Assistant Secretary General, Department for Political Affairs, New York, USA |
| 2008-2012 | Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| since 2012 | Retired from the UN, various teaching engagements, published five papers on peacebuilding |
| 1977 | Law Studies in Vienna (Dr. iur.) |
| 1977-1978 | Postgraduate-Studies, College of Europe, Bruges |
| 1978 | Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague |
| 1979 | Joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service |
| 1982-1986 | Austrian Mission to the European Communities, Brussels |
| 1986-1990 | Austrian Embassy, Moscow |
| 1991-1993 | Private Office of the Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna |
| 1993-1995 | Deputy Head of Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Mock and Schüssel, Vienna |
| 1995-1999 | Director for Security Policy and Policy Planning, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1996-1999 | Deputy Political Director, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1999-2003 | Ambassador of Austria to Belgium and Head of the Austrian Mission to NATO, Brussels |
| 2002-2004 | Special Representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister for the Western Balkans |
| 2003-2004 | Representative of the Federal Chancellor of Austria in the Commission on the Reform of the Austrian Armed Forces, Vienna |
| 2003-2008 | Political Director (Director General for Political Affairs) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 2008-2011 | Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, New York |
| 2009-2010 | Also represented Austria on the United Nations Security Council, New York (President of the Security Council in November 2009) |
| 2011 | Vice-President of the 66th General Assembly of the UN, New York |
| 2011-2015 | Ambassador, (Head of the Delegation) of the European Union to the United Nations, New York |
| since 2015 | Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service, Brussels |
| | Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges and Natolin |
