Angela Kane
Angela Kane ( born 1948 in Hameln as Angela Uther ) since March 2012 High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. Previously, she was Assistant since May 2004 Secretary-General for Political Affairs of the United Nations. This made her the highest-ranking German at the United Nations by Achim Steiner.
Study
She studied in Munich, at Bryn Mawr College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Activities at the United Nations
In 1977 she went to the United Nations; previously she had worked at the World Bank in New York. It dealt first with the support of the UN General Assembly and the organization of major UN conferences. She has worked among others in Indonesia, Thailand, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Most recently, she was commissioned by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE ) was used. In the years 1995 to 1999, she operated the development of the website of the UN.
On May 13, 2008 Angela Kane was appointed by the acting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for UN top manager. They ushered in July 2008 as Under-Secretary of the Department of Management of the United Nations. Since March 2012 she has held the office of High Representative of the Secretary-General for Disarmament.
In a situation high international pressure on Syria in late August 2013, it negotiated with the local rulers successfully an investigation of the suspected chemical weapons attack on August 21 near the capital Damascus through the UN weapons inspectors already in the country. The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said an announcement, according to the Foreign Office in connection with her by phone in order to keep itself informed of the agreement with the Syrian government agreement personally. Kane, who until then was hardly known, despite their outstanding work at the United Nations in Germany, was in the context of its mission in Damascus international media attention.