14.21 The Office of the Executive Director provides executive and support services to the Executive Director and the Deputy Executive Director, as well as to the senior management of UNEP.

Presentations were made by the Executive Director of UNICEF, the Executive Director of UNFPA, the Associate Administrator of UNDP and the Senior Deputy Executive Director of WFP.

The Office of the Chief Executive Officer comprises the Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Legal Officer, the Special Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer, and conference support and administrative staff.

The Advisory Committee met with the Executive Director and, via videoconference, with other senior officials of UNODC.

Two high level meetings were held, in Rome and Geneva, between the Assistant High Commissioner and the WFP Senior Deputy Executive Director and senior staff of the two organizations.

Performance contracts between members of the Senior Management Team and the Executive Director are proposed for implementation in 2005.

The International Olive Council shall have an Executive Secretariat comprising an Executive Director, senior officials and such staff as are required to perform the tasks arising from this Agreement.

The Executive Director shall carry out his or her duties and take management decisions on a collegiate basis with the senior officials.

Round table B was chaired by Willy Kiekens, Senior Executive Director, and Seraphine Wakana, Minister for Planning, Development and Reconstruction of Burundi.

The Executive Director of UNIFEM and the Director of the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) jointly chair the UNDP Senior Gender Task Force, and both are members of the Senior Management Team led by the Administrator.

As at 30 June 2004, there were approximately 1,800 indigenous women employed in the Australian Public Service,4 of whom 113 were employed at the executive level, and 9 were members of the senior executive service.

Experts should be drawn the field of candidates who have held senior management or executive positions that involve one or more of the following

The panellists will include Mr. Arun Maira, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group, India Mr. Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International Mr. Herman Mulder, Senior Executive, Vice President, ABN AMRO and Mr. Sam Jonah, former President of AngloGold Ashanti.

The posts of the Executive Director and of the senior officials shall be defined in the Rules of Procedure adopted by the Council of Members.

UNICEF agrees to develop and implement guidance which requires contracts involving significant financial commitments to be submitted to the Senior Adviser, Executive Office, for approval.

Senior PLO officials have participated in demonstrations and protest activities, with some being injured and Executive Committee member Abbas Zaki imprisoned for a couple of days.

Furthermore, the Executive Director and senior staff met frequently with the chairmen of regional groups and representatives of Member States to keep them abreast of developments.

In particular, the corporate workplace will never be completely family friendly until women are part of senior management decisions, and Europe s top corporate governance positions remain overwhelmingly male.

For the Senior Civil Service, which is responsible for top level public service appointments, the representation of women is a focus of attention, particularly in the recruitment phase.

Also in mid 2004, the Executive Committee and the external auditors recommended that UNHCR commission an independent review of its senior management structure, to encompass issues raised by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Executive Committee.

The most innovative aspect of these new rules is that the limits do not apply only to financial institutions chief executive officers, but to all the top managers (though the definition of top managers is delegated to national parliaments).

Altogether, during 2000 2008, the top executive teams at Bear Stearns and Lehman cashed out about 1.1 billion and 850 million (in 2009 dollars), respectively.

There were five female chief executive officers in Australia, and 3.2 per cent of women working in the top 200 companies occupied highest title positions.

The Executive Secretary sees the recruitment of more senior managers from non Annex I Parties as an imperative, so that the secretariat is fully representative of all Parties.

Instead, I have decided to create a cabinet style decision making mechanism (with stronger executive powers than the present Senior Management Group) to improve both policy and management.

There should be accountability at the highest levels for example, annual reporting to the Executive Board and gender mainstreaming should be included in the RCAs of senior management.

The Council of Members shall appoint the Executive Director and senior officials on the basis of the principle of proportionate alternation among the Members and of geographical equilibrium.

The Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer had presented the draft report on the evaluation (UNEP OzL.Pro ExCom 45 11) at the forty fifth meeting of the Executive Committee.

Members shall respect the exclusively international character of the responsibilities of the Executive Director, senior officials and staff and shall avoid influencing them in the discharge of their responsibilities.

Indonesia therefore fully agrees that there is a need to strengthen the commitment of senior and top managers to institutionalize gender mainstreaming by means of developing effective monitoring, reporting and accountability mechanisms.

In terms of distribution by gender and by rank in normal activities, men account for the overwhelming proportion of senior positions (HA), which cover executive, policymaking, advisory and oversight positions.

The rate of women among the three top ranks of the senior staff of the Civil Service, the main source for administration managers, has remained the same since our previous report was submitted.

As at June 2004, women held 32.2 per cent of Commonwealth controlled positions on Australian Government Boards and 31.6 per cent of senior executive service positions in the Australian Public Service.

The Working Group agreed that training should be offered to top management, senior managers and staff at large to enhance their understanding of the value and techniques of self evaluation (see annex, action item 15).

If the gains made by the Executive Director are to be sustained, there is an urgent need to ensure that this senior manager is available full time to focus on the administrative infrastructure.

Two additional support account posts are proposed in the Executive Office of the Secretary General a P 5 post for a Senior Political Officer and a General Service post for an Administrative Assistant.

Turnover among senior and not so senior people in these agencies is very high.

For the purpose of its proper functioning, the status, privileges and immunities of the International Olive Council, of its Executive Director, senior officials and other staff of its Executive Secretariat, of experts and of the delegations of the Members in the territory of Spain shall be governed by a Headquarters Agreement.

The Executive Director, the senior officials and the other members of the staff shall not carry out any gainful activity in any of the various sectors of the olive growing and olive products industry.

The Executive Director and the senior officials and staff shall not seek or receive instructions regarding their duties under this Agreement from any Member or from any authority external to the International Olive Council.

According to the Agency's 2003 Census of Women Board of Directors and Executive Managers, 43 per cent of managerial and professional positions in the top 200 companies were occupied by women.

C. Senior Management Network

A. Senior Management Service

Senior Adviser (D 1)

C. Senior Review Group