Moghalu elected Director of UN Academic Council

Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank

of Nigeria, has been elected member of Board of Directors of the

Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

ACUNS is an independent, global nonprofit organisation of scholars and

practitioners. It was established in 1987 to stimulate and support

research and teaching on the role of the United Nations system in

international relations.

Moghalu, a presidential candidate in the 2019 general election, who

recently again announced his intention to run for presidency in 2023,

disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.

According to him, the news of his election was conveyed in a letter by

Dr Lise Morjé Howard, President of ACUNS and Professor of Government

and Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

“On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the

United Nations System, I write with the news that the ACUNS

Nominations Committee and Board of Directors have each voted

unanimously to accept your nomination to join ACUNS as a Director, for

the period June 2021 – June 2025,” Moghalu quoted Howard as saying in

the letter.

In his reaction to the development, Moghalu said: “I am greatly

honored to have been elected to the Board of Directors of ACUNS. I

look forward to contributing to the corporate governance and the

substantive work of this distinguished global network.

“That is to help shape the global thinking on how the UN system can

adapt to the contemporary global environment and continue to be useful

to its nearly 200 member countries,” he stated.

The former CBN boss said that he, together with Maria Espinosa, former

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador and President of the 73rd

Session of the UN General Assembly, would also be Keynote Speakers in

the first plenary session of the upcoming ACUNS Annual Meeting on June

24.

Moghalu said he would speak on the theme of the session,“Change and

Inclusion in the Time of COVID”.

Moghalu served from December 2020 to June 2021 as the Special Envoy of

the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Post-COVID -19

Development Finance for Africa.

He previously served as Professor of Public Policy at The Fletcher

School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA

after his five year tenure as CBN Deputy Governor from 2009 to 2014.

At the apex bank, he led the implementation of far-reaching reforms in

the banking and payment systems including the introduction of the Bank

Verification Number (BVN).

He previously worked for the United Nations for 17 years, rising from

entry level to the highest career bracket of director.

Moghalu is the author of several books including “Build, Innovate and

Grow (BIG) Emerging Africa, Global Justice, Rwanda’s Genocide, among

others.

With its headquarters in New York, ACUNS currently has 30

institutional members and 450 individual members in 55 countries and

is governed by an international board of directors.

Courtesy (excluding headline) NAN