Since 2000, UNAGB  has organized a UN Day Luncheon to elevate the UN’s accomplishments and indispensable work by engaging high-level policy-makers, members of the business community, and academic leaders around a critical global issue. The events of 2021 have challenged all of us to imagine the ways we need to work-together anew for a better future. In 2021, our UN Day Luncheon will take place on Friday, October 22nd, from 11am-2pm – either in-person or virtually. 

This year we will be highlighting the theme of Youth in Action by focusing on the inspiring ways young people here in Boston are engaging with SDGs: learning, advocating, and taking action. These young people inspire us and we hope you are inspired as well.

Past speakers have included:

• 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)

For questions and other inquiries, please contact Alex Bostian, UNAGB Program Manager, Development & Community Outreach at [email protected]