His Excellency Bob Rae was elected the President of the 2025 session (July 2024 to July 2025) of the Economic and Social Council for the 2025 Session on 25 July 2024. Ambassador Bob Rae is the eightieth President of the Council

Vice-Presidents of ECOSOC: His Excellency Anatolio Ndong Mba, Permanent Representative of Equatorial Guinea; His Excellency Lok Bahadur Thapa, Permanent Representative of Nepal;

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The new ECOSOC President has outlined eight key priorities for her term, including leveraging ECOSOC’s policy guidance during multiple global crises, strengthening food security and humanitarian aid, addressing gaps in the international financial architecture, advancing solutions to the climate crisis, promoting gender equality, harnessing

The President of ECOSOC is committed to advancing an inclusive and sustainable development agenda, focusing on key global priorities such as displacement, harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainable development, and addressing financing for development.

Who is the President of the Economic and Social Council? The presidency changes every year at the ECOSOC’s first organizational session. Information about the current President, Bob Rae (Canada) is posted at the ECOSOC President's page .

The 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum is convened by the President of ECOSOC and organized by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in close collaboration with the UN Youth Office, the United Nations Inter Agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD) and co-convened by the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) and the International ...

The President’s Corner features highlights from the press conference held by the President of ECOSOC, H.E. Mr. Bob Rae, and the Executive Director of UNICEF and Inter-Agency Standing Committee Principal Advocate for Haiti, Ms. Catherine Russell, on the outcomes of the ECOSOC Special Meeting on Haiti’s Children.

the UN, culminating in his election to the Presidency of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for 2024‑25, the second Canadian to assume this role, and joins Lester Pearson (President of the General Assembly 1952‑53) and George Davidson (ECOSOC 1958‑59) as Canadians elected in their personal capacity to preside over UN Charter bodies.