Sima Sami Bahous of Jordan, Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations until recently, to be appointed executive director of UN Women, succeeding Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of South Africa and the third person, after Michelle Bachelet of Chile, to hold the post since the agency’s founding in 2010.
SOURCE: Passblue.com, by Barbara Crossette, 6 September 2021 ; PHOTO from her Twitter