Things You need to know about the incoming UN secretary general.

His Name is Antonio guterres.

He was born in Lisbon Portugal in 1949.

He studied engineering and physics at instituto superior tecnico and graduated in 1971.

He joined the socialist party in 1974 before going ahead to become the socialist party secretary general in 1992

He became the Portuguese prime minister in 1995, a post he held till 2002.


Then Mr Guterres, fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, turned his attention to the world of international diplomacy, becoming the UN's high commissioner for refugees in 2005.

Under his guidance, the numbers working in the UNHCR's Geneva head office were slashed, while its capacity to respond to international crises by deploying more staff closer to hotspots was improved.

However, it was his tireless attempts to get the world's richest countries to do more for those fleeing conflict and disaster around the world that people remember.

"We can't deter people fleeing for their lives," he wrote in Timemagazine last year. "They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely."

Prior to his nomination, he said that his work at the UNHCR had been excellent preparation for a secretary-general.

"I think we are living in a world where we see a multiplication of new conflicts, and you see an enormous difficulty in solving the conflicts," he said.

"There is a clear lack of capacity in the international community to prevent and to solve conflicts."

Mr Guterres, 67, has two children from his marriage to his first wife, who died in 1998. He remarried in 2001.

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sarrki:
Thought that post was reserved for NOI

u think u dey make mockery of that great woman abi? U don hear of World Bank b4?

Other countries celebrate archievers and a rare gift like NOI but illiterate like u wants to pull her down