Arora Akanksha Wiki – Arora Akanksha Bio
Akanksha Arora is an audit coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Arora was born on 25 August 1986 in India.
Indian-origin employee at the UN has announced her candidacy to be its next Secretary-General, the first person to throw her hat in the ring against incumbent Antonio Guterres, who is seeking a second five-year term beginning January 2022 as chief of the world organization.
Age
She is 34 years old.
Arora Akanksha UN Secretary-General Candidacy
Akanksha, an Indian-origin employee at the UN has announced her candidacy to be its next Secretary-General.
She is the first person to throw her hat in the ring against incumbent Antonio Guterres, who is seeking a second five-year term beginning January 2022 as chief of the world organization.
“People in my position aren’t supposed to stand up to the ones in charge. We are supposed to wait our turn, hop on the hamster wheel, go to work, keep our heads down and accept that the world is the way it is,” Akanksha can be heard saying in a two and half minute campaign video posted online.
Career
Akanksha working as an audit coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said she will run for the post of the world’s top diplomat and launched her campaign #AroraForSG this month.
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According to her profile on her website UNOW.org, Akanksha graduated from York University, Toronto with a Bachelor of Administrative Studies. She received her Master in Public Administration from Columbia University.
Her profile states that she was recruited at the UN to help with the financial reforms of the organization and her work included updating financial regulations and rules of the UN and managing the internal and external audits at UNDP.
Campaign Video
The video shows Akanksha walking inside the sprawling UN headquarters, as her voiceover says that people who have come before her have failed to hold the UN accountable.
“For 75 years, the UN has not fulfilled its promise to the world – refugees haven’t been protected, humanitarian aid has been minimal, and technology and innovation have been on the back-burner. We deserve a UN that leads progress,” she said.
“That is why I am running for the Secretary-General of the United Nations. I refuse to be a bystander. I will not accept this is the best the UN can do,” she added.
Akanksha further said it is high time that the UN stop serving politicians and start serving people.
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