Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi

Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (born 1952 in Yazd) is an Iranian diplomat and lawyer. He is Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Administrative and Financial Affairs of Iran. He served as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2003 to 2008. He served as President of the UNICEF Executive Board at the international level in 2005^[1]^[2] and as Chairman of the United Nations Commission for Social Development in 2006. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director for the Department of Treaties in 1982, and has formerly been Ambassador to Sweden (1987–1992).^[3]

References

↑ Officers of the UNICEF Executive Board 1946–2014, UNICEF
↑ Executive Board, UNICEF
↑ Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Government of Iran

Chairmen and Presidents of UNICEF

Chairmen	Ludwik Rajchman (1946–50) Adelaide Sinclair (1951–52) August R. Lindt (1953– 54) Balachandra Rajan (1955–56) Mahmood Shafqat (1957–58) John Ryan (1959) Felix Schnyder (1960) W. A. E. Green (1961) Miguel E. Bustamente (1962–63) Zina Harman (1964–66) Joseph W. Willard (1966–68) İhsan Doğramacı (1968–70) Nils Thedin (1970–72) Narciso G. Reyes (1972–74) Hans Conzett (1974–76) Antonio Ordoñez-Plaja (1976–77) Ferdinand Oyono (1977–78) Sadako Ogata (1978–79) Zaki Hasan (1979–80) Paal Bog (1980–81) Dragan Matelijak (1981–82) Hugo Scheltema (1982–83) Haydée Martínez de Osorio (1983–84) Richard C. Manning (1984–85) Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (1985–86) Maurizio Bucci (1986–87) A.P. Maruping (1987–88) Makoto Taniguchi (1988) Torild Skard (1988–89) Margarita Diéguez (1989–90) Lisbet Palme (1990–91) Mira Seth (1991–92) Frederick Ward (1992–93) Anne Makinda (1993–94)

Presidents	Anne Makinda (1994) Khalil Makkawi (1995) Ion Goriță (1996) Mercedes Pulido (1997) Michael Powles (1998) Ibrahim Gambari (1999) Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (2000) Movses Abelian (2001) Andrés Franco (2002) Jenö Staehelin (2003) Lebohang K. Moleko (2004) Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (2005) Andrei Dapkiunas (2006) Javier Loayza Barea (2007) Anders Lidén (2008) Oumar Daou (2009) Abulkalam Abdul Momen (2010) Sanja Štiglic (2011) John W. Ashe (2012) Jarmo Viinanen (2013) Macharia Kamau (2014) Maliha Lodhi (2015) Sven Jürgenson (2016)

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