Franz Baumann

Franz Baumann

Franz Baumann (1953, Schramberg), is the United Nations Umoja Senior Deployment Coordinator.^[1] From June 2009 to September 2014, he served as Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management at the United Nations Secretariat in New York.

Biography

Baumann attended primary school in Schramberg and passed his advanced level exams (Abitur) in 1973 at Schramberg Secondary School. He then studied social sciences and management at the University of Konstanz, specializing in international management, and in 1975 studied history of art at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom. He obtained his degree in public administration in 1979 from the University of Konstanz and went on to obtain a doctorate in political science in 1992 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His wife Barbara Gibson is a Canadian diplomat and served from 2004 to 2008 as ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna. Their daughter Hannah was born in 2000.

Professional experience

In 1976, Baumann worked for the European Parliament in Luxembourg, in 1979 at the European Commission in Brussels and in 1980 for the electronics giant Siemens in Munich. Baumann began his career with the United Nations in 1980, serving from 1980 to 1982 as Associate Expert in Nigeria for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He then worked in various departments at the United Nations Secretariat, including those of management and peacekeeping, and in the Office of the Secretary General. In 1993 he was Chief Administrative Officer of the joint United Nations/Organization of American States Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Haiti (MICIVIH). In 2002 he was appointed Director for Management of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV), in 2004 Deputy Director-General of UNOV, in 2006 Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and in 2007 Acting Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). Since 2013, member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance (Berlin, Germany)

Publications (excerpt)

• "Wie weit half der Marshall-Plan? Das europäische Wiederaufbauprogramm in kritischer Beleuchtung". Damals. 8. year (5). May 1976. 
• "Plädoyer gegen eine Verweigerung". Forum Europa (4/5). January 1979. 

• with Jan Ulrich Clauss; Dirk Gerdes (editor ): Die Regionalisierung Belgiens: Arithmetik eines Sprachenstreites; Aufstand in der Provinz ; Frankfurt/New York 1980 ISBN 978-3593328034
• The bureaucratic State and economic Development in Nigeria, Doctoral Dissertation, Carleton University Ottawa 1992
• "Kollektive Psychopathologie". Sprach-Nachrichten (1/2000). 2000. 
• "Globalisierung und nationale Identität". Kontext 8. May 2001. 
• "Ein pragmatischer Idealist: Würdigung des Nobelpreisträgers Kofi Annan". Aufbau 57 (22). 25 October 2001. ISSN 0004-7813. 
• "Die Generalsanierung des UN-Amtssitzes (Capital Master Plan)". Vereinte Nationen 52 (6). December 2004. 
• "Warum ist Afrika unterentwickelt? Das Beispiel Nigeria". Mut (533). April 2012. 
• "Coexistence of Languages at the United Nations". Le Jour ; Université de Saint Joseph, Beirut (26). April 2012.  PDF here
• "Die kurze Renaissance der VN-Friedensmissionen nach der Eiszeit des Kalten Krieges". In: Des Friedens General (Ekkehard Griep, Hrsg., Herder Verlag Freiburg, Basel, Wien, ISBN978-3-451-30743-0). 2013. 
• "Die Vereinten Nationen. Eine Innenansicht der Schwierigkeiten, Frieden zu schaffen". Mut (554). March 2014. 
• "The Principle of Hope (Review of Governing the World? Addressing ‘Problems without Passports’, by Tom Weiss)". acuns.org. October 2014. 

References

External links

• Secretary-General appoints Franz Baumann of Germany as Assistant Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management| UN Press release, May 2009