Kul Gautam
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Kul Chandra Gautam, from Nepal, is currently Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of the UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.[1]
As a key senior UNICEF officer, Gautam was responsible for drafting the Declaration and Plan of Action of the 1990 World Summit for Children, the largest gathering of world leaders in history until that time. In May 2002 he led the organization of another major United Nations conference, the Special Session of the General Assembly on Children attended by 70 world leaders and thousands of child rights activists and civil society leaders, including celebrities and Nobel Prize Laureates.