2023: H.E. Paula Narváez (Chile)

Her Excellency Paula Narváez was elected the President of the 2024 session (July 2023 to July 2024) of the Economic and Social Council on 27 July 2023. Ambassador Paula Narváez is the seventy-ninth President of the Council. Ambassador Paula Narváez is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations in New York.

Biography

Seventy-ninth President of the Economic and Social Council

Her Excellency Paula Narváez was elected the seventy-ninth President of the Economic and Social Council on 27 July 2023. Ambassador Paula Narváez is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations in New York. Her Excellency Paula Narváez assumed her duties as Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations on 08 June 2022. Before this latest appointment, Ms. Narváez was the Officer-in-Charge at the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) in Guatemala, from February to May 2022. She also served as Socio-Political Adviser at the UN-Women Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, from October 2021 to February 2022, and Regional Adviser for Governance and Political Participation in the same office, from 2018 to 2020. Between 2016 and 2018, Ms. Narváez was Minister Secretary General of Government, and she served as a Presidential Adviser from 2014 to 2016. From 2012 until 2014, she was a Latin America and Caribbean Section Program Specialist at UN-Women, based in New York. Following the eruption of the Chaitén Volcano in Chile in May 2008, Ms. Narváez served as the delegate of then-President Michelle Bachelet to the Chaitén Volcano Emergency, from 2008 to 2009. She has also held a number of other Government positions. Ms. Narváez earned a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University in the United States; a master’s degree in economics and regional management from the Universidad Austral de Chile; and a degree in psychology from the Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, also in Chile.

 

Statements
19 July 2024Opening Statement at ECOSOC Special Meeting: Promoting Care and Support Systems
17 July 2024Closing Remarks on 2024 High-Level Political Forum
16 July 2024Closing remarks at the 2024 SDG Global Business Forum, Co-creating business impact to drive transformation
15 July 2024Opening Remarks at The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 (SOFI) Special Event
11 July 2024Remarks at the Business and Industry Major Group Side Event "Business Accelerating the 2030 Agenda"   
 
8 July 2024Opening Statement on 2024 High-Level Political Forum
1 July 2024Statement on Joint Meeting of The Economic and Social Council and The Peacebuilding Commission
30 May 2024Video message for International Day of Potato High-level Ceremony
30 May 2024Video message for the Africa Dialogue Series 2024
9 May 2024Statement on STI Forum side-event “Better Leveraging Science, Technology, Innovation and Engineering for Accelerating Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals” (English; Spanish)
7 May 2024Opening statement at the ECOSOC Special Meeting on Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
6 May 2024Primer período de sesiones de 2024 de la Junta Ejecutiva de ONU-Hábitat
30 April 2024Opening remarks at the Joint event of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council on the theme "El Niño 2023-2024: Actions for the safety, sustainability and resilience of people and the planet"
25 April 2024Closing Speech at the Financing for Development Forum (English; Spanish)
22 April 2024

Opening Speech at the Financing for Development Forum

22 April 2024Closing Remarks Economic and Social Council 2024 Forum on Financing for Development Monitoring Special High-Level Meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions, WTO and UNCTAD
22 April 2024Opening Remarks Economic and Social Council 2024 Forum on Financing for Development Monitoring Special High-Level Meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions, WTO and UNCTAD
18 April 2024Closing Statement on ECOSOC Youth Forum
16 April 2024Opening Statement on ECOSOC Youth Forum
15 April 2024Intervention on the Occasion of the High-Level Thematic Debate on Debt Sustainability and Socioeconomic Equality for All
15 April 2024Remarks at the twenty-third session of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration
15 April 2024Intervention on the occasion of the twenty-seventh session of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development and Innovation
15 April 2024Statement on 23rd session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
3 April 2024Statement on Second global workshop for VNR countries 2024
27 March 2024Statement on First informal consultations on the ministerial declaration of the high-level segment of the 2024 session of the Economic and Social Council and the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
5 March 2024Video message on Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for the SDGs Member State briefing
29 February 2024Opening Remarks on Sixth Session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6) (English; Spanish)
15 February 2024Remarks on First informal consultations of the General Assembly’s review of arrangements contained in its resolutions 75/290A and 75/290B and their annexes on the strengthening of the Economic and Social Council and the review of the high-level political forum on sustainable development
6 February 2024Opening Remarks on High-level Ministerial Conference on Middle Income Countries - “Solutions to Address Development Challenges of Middle-Income Countries in a Changing World”
2 February 2024Statement on Joint Briefing on the work of ECOSC and the General Assembly
31 January 2024Opening remarks on 2024 ECOSOC Coordination Segment
30 January 2024Statement on 2024 ECOSOC Partnership forum
23 January 2024Opening remarks on ECOSOC Extraordinary Meeting - The future of work: towards a productive, inclusive and sustainable global society
18 January 2024Video Statement on Sixth Intersessional Meeting for Dialogue and Cooperation on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
18 December 2023Informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing on Haiti
12 December 2023Greetings to the National Association of Cooperatives
10 December 2023Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
7 December 2023Joint Meeting of ECOSOC and General Assembly on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs)
4 December 2023Opening Message on the First Global VNR Workshop for 2024 VNRs
27 November 2023Video Remarks on the high-level opening of the 20th General Conference of UNIDO
7 November 2023Opening Remarks on Side event on the substantive preparations for the 15th UN congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
31 October 2023Statement on International Day of Care and Support
23 October 2023Statement on 51st Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 51) Global Interlinkages Dialogue (English; Spanish)
20 October 2023Remarks on the High-Level Closing Roundtable of the 8th World Investment Forum
18 October 2023Statement on United Nations Eighth World Investment Forum (English; Spanish)
18 October 2023Video Statement to the Tenth session of the UN-GGIM Regional Committee for the Americas
10 October 2023Joint meeting of ECOSOC and the Second Committee of the General Assembly on “Leveraging Commodities for Sustainable Economic Development.” (Opening in Spanish; Closing in Spanish).
3 October 2023Statement on the occasion of the opening of the Fifth Meeting of the Regional Conference on Social Development of Latin America and the Caribbean
28 September 2023Video Statement to the 54th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council
22 September 2023Opening speech on High Level Meeting on the Fight against Tuberculosis
21 September 2023Statement on High-level meeting of the ECOSOC Special Advisory Group on Haiti with Caribbean partners
20 September 2023Closing Remarks on General Assembly High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development
18 September 2023Opening Remarks on 2023 SDG Summit (English; Spanish)
27 July 2023Inaugural Statement of the President of ECOSOC (English; Spanish)
Letters
20 November 2023GA-ECOSOC thematic event on Landlocked Developing Countries