Details about our 2024 UN Day Celebration will be forthcoming. Stay tuned for details!
In the meantime, read about our 2023 UN Day Luncheon:
On Friday, October 20, 2023 at The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the heart of Cambridge, MA, UNAGB celebrated UN Day. Our Keynote Speaker & 2023 Honoree was Dr. Adil Najam, President of WWF International, who addressed UN SDG Goal 13: Climate Action with his keynote speech.
Past UN Day keynote speakers have included:
- Dr. Jonathan Fanton, President Emeritus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2022)
- Judge Mark Wolf, Founder, Integrity Initiatives International (2022)
- Dustin Liu, 9th U.S. Youth Observer to the United Nations (2021)
- Elizabeth Cousens, President and CEO of the United Nations Foundation (2020)
- Natalia Urtubey, Executive Director of the City of Boston’s Imagine Boston 2030 Plan (2020)
- Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All (2019)
- Timothy Edgar, former National Security and Intelligence Official and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University (2018)
- Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (2016)
- Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Representative of the UK to the UN (2015)
- Ambassador David Donoghue, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations (2014)