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Giandomenico Picco
Under Secretary General of the United Nations
CEO of GDP Associates & President of Peace Strategies Project
Giandomenico
Picco, an Under Secretary General of the United Nations, is the Personal
Representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Year of
Dialogue among Civilizations. He is also the CEO of GDP Associates, Inc. in
New York City, and President of the non-governmental Peace Strategies Project
in Geneva, Switzerland.
He
graduated from the University of Padua with a degree in political science. He
holds a Masters of Arts degree in International Relations and Comparative
Politics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a diploma in
European Integration Studies from the University of Amsterdam.
During his
career at the United Nations, Mr. Picco was Assistant Secretary General for
Political Affairs from 1973 to 1992. Notable achievements during this time
included the United Nations efforts leading to the release of the Western
hostages in Lebanon and the negotiations which led to the cease fire between
Iran and Iraq. He represented the Secretary General in the negotiations of the
Geneva Accords (1998) on Afghanistan and in the Rainbow Warrior arbitration.
Mr. Picco
has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the President's
Special Award for Exceptional Service from the US, the Grand Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Order of the Cedre du
Liban from the President of Lebanon, and others. His personal account of the
Lebanon hostage case was published as a book entitled Man without a Gun.
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