A Fool’s Errand? The Next Secretary-General and United Nations Reform

With António Guterres elected as the next United Nations Secretary-General there will be a focus on reform priorities.

By Richard Ponzio and Michael Schroeder

With the recent election of António Guterres as the next United Nations Secretary-General, the focus will soon shift to the next Secretary-General’s reform priorities, with a particular emphasis on how he should spend his first year in office. The view in many policy circles is that the UN urgently needs comprehensive change, and the next Secretary-General is expected to capitalize on the honeymoon to initiate transformation. In this article, Dr. Richard Ponzio (Stimson Center) and Dr. Michael Schroeder (American University) directly challenge this conventional view and put forward an alternative leadership strategy.

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