Can the Next Secretary-General Deliver for the World's Young People and Young Countries?

In 1960, when 17 African nations declared independence from colonial rule, the United Nations reinvented itself. Fast forward to today, Africa and parts of Asia are home to the largest generation of young people in history.

In Africa alone, 12 million young people enter the workforce every year, but only 3 million formal jobs are created. Development assistance is no longer enough. African leaders want real structural power in the global economy.

On this episode of World’s Toughest Job, we ask: Can the next Secretary-General deliver for the world’s young people and young countries?

Host Jasmin Baoumy and co-host Mark Malloch-Brown are joined by Ambassador Martin Kimani, President and CEO of the Africa Center and Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2021 to 2024; Joe Studwell, senior visiting fellow at the UK’s Overseas Development Institute and Senior Fellow at the Africa Urban Lab; and Saru Duckworth, Ph.D. researcher at Oxford.

World’s Toughest Job is a co-production of Foreign Policy and the UN Foundation.

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