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Ourania S. Yancopoulos was the winner of Carnegie Council's 2016 Annual Student Research Conference. She was a United Nations intern in 2015 and is graduating with a BA in Political Science and Statistics from Columbia College at Columbia University in May 2016.
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JUN 1, 2016 • Podcast
An Evaluation of Gender Balance in the Leadership of the UN Secretariat
"We see the UN come out time and time again for a need for gender parity, not only within its organization, but at the state ...
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MAY 16, 2016 • Article
Gender Imbalance in the UN Leadership
"Despite the UN's repeated commitment to 50/50 gender parity, the UN has never been even close to this goal," writes Ourania Yancopoulos in this follow-up interview ...