From 2010: The UNESCO Senior Staff

Senior management team appointed by Irina Bokova. From left to right:

• Jānis Kārkliņš, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information;
• Lalla Aïcha Ben Barka, Assistant Director-General, Africa Department;
• Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences;
• Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education;
• Getachew Engida, Deputy Director-General;
• Irina Bokova, Director-General;
• Hans d’Orville, Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning;
• Francesco Bandarin, Assistant Director-General for Culture;
• María del Pilar Álvarez-Laso, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences;
• Khadija Ribes Zammouri, Assistant Director-General for Administration;
• Eric Falt, Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Public Information.
• Absent from photo: Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

Read Director-General Bokova's introduction of the senior staff.