UN Day

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)