Angela Kane (born 1948 in Hamelin, Lower Saxony) currently serves as Under-Secretary-General for Management in the United Nations. She was appointed to the post by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in May 2008.
Kane has served in many positions during her career at the United Nations. Before being appointed as USG for Management, she was Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, focusing on preventing and resolving conflicts. In this capacity, she was in charge of two regional divisions, decolonization, the question of Palestine, and supported several special political missions in Iraq, Nepal and the Middle East.
She also served as Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, where she concentrated on the implementation of reform initiatives, integrated global management, the use of information technology tools and the repositioning of the Department as a proactive and efficient service provider.
From 1999 to 2003, she acted as director in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs.
From 1995 to 1999, Kane was in a managerial position in the Department of Public Information, where she was responsible for United Nations publications. In this capacity, she led the movement of online publishing of UN documents and facilitated the availability of UN web site in all official languages.
Her experiences at the United Nations also include Principal Officer for Political Affairs in the Office of former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and assistant to the Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for the Central American Peace Process with the negotiation to end the conflict in El Salvador. She has also served in different capacities in several UN missions including United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Bangkok, Thailand.
Prior to joining the UN Secretariat, she worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and for the private sector in Europe.
She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.