UNFSU Executive Elections
Mark Polane is a Business Partnership Supervisor who has long been serving because the UNFSU president along with Leila and Liliya as his Vice Presidents considering the fact that September 2019. His final assignment was in the Regional Subject Technology Support in Entebbe, Uganda. His United Nations job begun in 1992 when he joined the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in Jerusalem like a Subject Company Officer, (Radio Operator). His career path led him to work in several capacities typically in Information & Communications Engineering but in addition in Residence/Belongings administration and supply in addition to Human Source management. From ’ninety two to 2000 he labored in UNTSO, MINURSO, UNPF and UNIKOM, returning to UNTSO, Jerusalem to think the Presidency of the then known as “Area Support Personnel Union”, which underneath his Management was expanded to include a illustration of all Intercontinental Staff in UN Peacekeeping, Therefore turning out to be the sector Personnel Union. Soon after finishing two conditions in Office environment he returned to operate throughout the ICT sector and subsequently labored in UNTSO, Jerusalem, UN-Headquarters, Big apple, UNGSC, Brindisi And eventually UN-Entebbe, Uganda. He retains a Learn’s of Science diploma in Intercontinental Administration within the College of Liverpool.
Mark is excited about Management, Technological know-how, Human Legal rights and equality. He also contains a enthusiasm for lifelong Discovering and is particularly an avid reader. He has served on innumerable FSU Committees in many capacities championing team results in all over his 27-calendar year job from the UN. He's a skilful negotiator, mediator and writer. He has an progressive attitude and also a significant photo eyesight. He is philosophical and has a keen idea of ideal and Erroneous, ethics and integrity, and communicates his feelings and convictions Obviously and passionately.
Mark is actually a citizen from the Netherlands, born in Belgium to two Dutch Mom and dad. He grew up in an exceptionally smaller village in The agricultural Netherlands. He speaks fluent English and manages fairly in Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and a little bit of Arabic. As a youthful male of 16 many years, he joined the Royal Netherlands Navy, which charted his International experience. He's happily married and has two Grownup phase-youngsters along with a twenty years outdated son.
He intends to guide the FSU by case in point, emphasizing integrity, honesty, and steadfast personnel representation for all UN International team Doing work in UN Peacekeeping. He hopes to carry revolutionary methods that happen to be mutually helpful to employees as well as Group.
Liliya Galieva
Because the early phase of my job, subsequent graduation from Gorky Point out Linguistic College in Russia, I worked with Intercontinental businesses including the Earth Financial institution (1992-1993) and American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR), an American NGO underneath the auspices of the program of your Bureau of Academic and Cultural Affairs of the United States Office of Condition. I had been happy to contribute to the event of my city of Nizhniy Novgorod (Incidentally the town hosted Soccer Cup 2018 in Russia) even though working on Earth Bank jobs of upgrading community transportation, finance and housing programs. Even more appealing and gratifying time was when I labored for ACTR (1993-1998), managing Trade plans for college kids and university professors. At the same time, I pursued my Legislation Degree at Gorky Condition University. Later on, I turned an exchange university student myself and acquired Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship grant at Harvard College (1998-2000). That was an exuberant time and position, exactly where I achieved essentially the most incredible individuals and was uncovered not just to educational minds and souls but also to passionate and committed people from all around the environment. That was the leading virtue of currently being a student of Kennedy College of presidency, my second Alma Mater.
Soon after Harvard College, my era of UN has started and proceeds nonetheless. While in the calendar year 2000 I joined the UN Peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, subsequent the institution of UNMIK by SCR 1244 in 1999. Being a Civil Affairs Officer, I used to be privileged to operate on different assignments and in several locations of Kosovo, starting from central Kosovo, from the North Mitrovica location (engaged in publish-conflict reconstruction, humanitarian support, and native capacity creating by democratic elections) and continuing in the West of Kosovo, in which I used to be serving as The pinnacle of Field Place of work working with non-majority problems, cultural heritage, returns and advertisement hoc protection incidents influencing non-vast majority communities. It had been an incredibly complicated and interesting work, which was fully fitting my temperament While using the cornerstone becoming aiding the vulnerable. Currently being Component of area government structures, I realized regional languages (Serbo-Croatian, and I had been midway with colloquial Albanian) On top of that to my English, German and rusty Spanish. Italian is usually progressing well. Presently, I am an incumbent UNFSU VP given that 2019 and my two-yr tenure coincided Together with the CoviD-19 pandemic plus the troubles of changing to different modes of labor and symbolizing the Intercontinental team in industry missions as UNFSU VP.
My UNFSU Elections own obstacle was to lift up my son and an orphan nephew, being a distant-Command mom and aunt. They both of those are around 30 now and they're on the appropriate keep track of. Not long ago I turned a grandmother of a good looking granddaughter Ekaterina. Lifetime goes on.
To practical experience travelling adventures, observing new spots, Assembly new folks, Understanding new languages FSU is my passion. My second passion is sporting activities. Pilates retains my head and overall body in sanity form. Bicycling and climbing enable me to find out the beauties from the United Nations Field Staff Union local mother nature.
In 2006, I had been elected as Vice-Chair to FSU Council in UNMIK. And I've faced numerous challenges since that interval such as the challenging downsizing procedure in 2012-2013, when UNMIK FSU pushed the mission leadership to support downsized staff members to diverse missions, by creating a letter towards the incumbent SG, Ban Ki-Moon. Another terrific results, which UNMIK FSU reached UNFSU Election below my leadership and aid of world FSU in 2018 was a review of your Hardship classification of Responsibility Stations, Pristina and Mitrovica, which can be in effect considering the fact that January 2019.
Through my tenure as UNFSU VP, I used to be A part of the SMC WG on Mobility and Range, Downsizing, Functionality Management addressing the procedures. I assisted our colleagues from Haiti mission to obstacle the Management choice to chop the entitlements retroactively on account of Covid -19 and so they were being profitable in winning the MEU scenarios. Our Crew labored on alterations within the UNFSU Structure in an effort to streamline it with a more progressive strategy for representing the staff members. I also worked on unique circumstances of the personnel concerning Cigna and UN Pension Fund. Our workforce set up lawful support to our colleagues in the UN retirees Doing work pro bono and supporting the staff to get ready cases for that UN internal Justice technique. UNFSU Team Foreseeable future was actively engaged with DMSPC regarding accommodating the downsized personnel from closing missions UNAMID, UNOGBIS and Burundi. More than one hundred colleagues were being positioned in various missions and had been in the position to maintain their Positions. And it is still a work in development.
Therefore, I'm on the lookout forward to staying re-elected for another phrase and signify all UN Intercontinental Staff in the sector missions with pleasure and dignity and carry on preventing for good circumstances of assistance and payment for all hardship that our employees is encountering in several missions.
Leila Manly-Spain can be an Administrative Officer and one of many incumbent Vice Presidents of the present UNFSU Govt. Her United Nations profession commenced in 2004 when she joined the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) to be a United Nations Volunteer (UNV). She has given that then labored UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), United Nations Aid Workplace for Somalia (UNSOS), UN Regional Provider Centre, Entebbe right until she and her team, Crew Long run were being elected to serve as the UNFSU Government Staff in September 2019.
An accountant by job, she is also a Licensed Instruction Qualified (CTP) and serves to be a Peacekeeping Training Officer inside the Firm. She retains a Bachelor’s diploma in Small business Administration from the University of Sunderland and it is at present pursuing a certification in Human Methods Administration, to empower her to raised provide the staff of UN field entities.
Leila is keen about leadership and personnel will cause, specifically in the sphere of Discovering and development. She has served in Area Workers Unions (FSU) committees given that 2006 and has become profitable in championing several staff members will cause. She's an avid coach, specializing in UN competencies together with other human (smooth) techniques. Leila is noted for her Electricity, zest for all times and talent to get frank and authentic.
Leila can be a Guinea Bissau nationwide, born in Egypt, to diplomat dad and mom and As a result grew up in Russia, The us, The Gambia and the United Kingdom. She is fluent in English, Portuguese Creole, English Krio, and Wolof. She can also get by in French, Spanish and Italian. Being an item of the multicultural upbringing, she is often open up to new encounters and is highly respectful and appreciative of cultural dynamics and diversity issues. Leila is married with a few small children.
Leila is pushed with the belief that no-one ought to ever feel alone of their tricky moments and has become identified to serve all employees (international and countrywide), as she actually lives the UNFSU motto, that we're “Stronger alongside one another”.
Leila hopes to have the ability to keep on to serve the amazing team on the UN discipline entities and to convey her appreciate of daily life, diversity, Management and pursuit of excellence to your FSU Government Body. She's counting on your vote to create this a truth which is wishes to say, UNFSU “Thank you, for that privilege and honour of doing so”.