Below are the biographies of the keynote speakers at the opening ceremonies of cmunce xxii, on january 12th, 2023, in roone Arledge auditorium at columbia university.

H.E. Mr. Csaba Kőrösi

President of the 77th United Nations General Assembly (PGA) 

H.E. Mr. Csaba Kőrösi is a Hungarian diplomat currently serving as President of the 77th United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Kőrösi headed Hungary’s permanent UN representation in New York between 2010 and 2014, and served as vice-president of the General Assembly from 2011 to 2012. He was previously the director for environmental sustainability at the Office of the President of the Republic of Hungary. Mr. Kőrösi is a founding member of the Hungarian Scientific Panel on Climate Change and a permanent invitee to the Presidential Committee on Sustainable Development at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National Council on Sustainable Development at the Hungarian National Assembly.. Mr. Kőrösi studied at the Moscow Institute of International Relations, the University of Leeds Institute of International Relations, the Truman Institute for Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. Mr. Kőrösi is a recipient of the Hungarian Order of Merit. He was also awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Greek Order of the Phoenix.

H.E. Ms. Rabab Fatima

Under Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)

H.E. Ms. Rabab Fatima is a Bangladeshi diplomat, currently serving as the high representative of the United Nations for the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states. Ms. Fatima has more than 30 years of experience in national and international Civil Service, encompassing bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, policy-making, advocacy, programme planning and implementation. Ms. Fatima joined her country’s Diplomatic Service in 1989 and served in various capacities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in Bangladesh Missions in New York, Kolkata, Geneva and Beijing. Between 2019 to July 2022, she served as the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. Prior to this, she was Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan. On 1 February, 2022, she was elected the Chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). Ms. Fatima holds a master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science from the University of Canberra, Australia.

H.E. Mr. Miroslav Jenča

Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas of the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations 

H.E. Mr. Jenča is a Slovak diplomat currently serving as the  Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and Americas in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs. He has served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, since 2008.  He was previously Director of the Office of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, as well as Ambassador and Head of Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Centre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  He served as Ambassador and Representative of Slovakia to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union and Ambassador of Slovakia to Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia, including positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia and diplomatic missions in Ireland and Mexico. Mr. Jenča holds a Doctor of Law degree from Comenius University in Bratislava.  He studied foreign trade at the University of Economics in Bratislava, diplomacy and international relations at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and diplomacy at Stanford University.