IR TALKS 1: Pact for the Future – Building Hope in a Fractured World – UN priorities in 2024
Martin Nesirky, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Vienna, holds a lecture at Corvinus on UN priorities in 2024. IR TALKS is a series of guest and roundtable talks organised by the Department of International Relations at Corvinus University to make sense of the world we live in at a time of turbulent international politics.
Date: 8 November 2024. 10:30-12:00
Location: Corvinus, Building C, 1093 Budapest, Közraktár utca 4-6. room C102
In the context of contemporary global uncertainty, it can be crucial to understand the underlying goals of the UN’s strategic initiatives, especially in terms of their potential to promote peace and support development in a divided and highly unequal world.
For Corvinus students, this is a unique opportunity to gain insight into how the UN addresses international conflicts and global issues. In addition, it provides insights that will prove useful for future international careers.
The lecture is followed by a Q&A providing opportunity to ask Martin Nesirky about his journalistic and UN career and how he evaluates the UN’s role in the current international order.
Mr. Nesirky served as Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York from December 2009 to March 2014. Before that, he was Spokesperson and Head of Press and Public Information at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Vienna, for more than three years.
He had an extensive journalistic career at Thomson Reuters (1982 to 2006), serving as Bureau Chief, News and Television, both in Moscow and Seoul; prior postings also included assignments in London, East Berlin and The Hague.
The event is organized by the Department of International Relations, Institute of Global Studies in cooperation with the United Nations Information Service Vienna.