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.

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.

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.

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

Although women comprise 38 percent of the civil service, they account for only 16 percent of civil servants at senior level positions.

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.

The Executive Committee disagreed, noting that this might encourage poorer performance on those matters The evaluators recommended that the Executive Committee should engage an independent auditor to assist with account reconciliation.

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 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.

The High Representative and European Union Special Representative, the Commander of EUFOR and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Senior Military Representative have all called on the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina to ensure that senior commanders are properly held to account.

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.

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.

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.

Taking into account the thematic areas and or priorities established by the Council, the Executive Director may also submit proposals for consideration by the Council.

Upon being instructed by the Executive Board to issue CERs for a CDM project activity, the CDM registry administrator, working under the authority of the Executive Board, shall, promptly, issue the specified quantity of CERs into the pending account of the Executive Board in the CDM registry, in accordance with appendix D below.

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.

C. Senior Management Network

A. Senior Management Service

Senior Adviser (D 1)

C. Senior Review Group

Senior Administrative Personnel Officer

Senior External Relations Adviser

This was emphasized by China s new senior leaders Executive Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and Premier Li Keqiang in the Forum s opening and closing remarks, and considerable detail was provided in many of the working sessions.

It is striking that no senior executive of whom I am aware has laid out in any detail how his or her institution s expertise could be deployed in pursuit of the collective goal of stability.