Mark Polane is a company Connection Supervisor who has become serving as being the UNFSU president along with Leila and Liliya as his Vice Presidents considering the fact that September 2019. His very last assignment was in the Regional Subject Technological know-how Company in Entebbe, Uganda. His United Nations vocation started in 1992 when he joined the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in Jerusalem as a Field Service Officer, (Radio Operator). His career path led him to operate in many capacities typically in Information and facts & Communications Technological know-how but also in Property/Belongings administration and provide together with Human Source management. From ’92 to 2000 he worked in UNTSO, MINURSO, UNPF and UNIKOM, returning to UNTSO, Jerusalem to assume the Presidency of the then called “Industry Company Staff members Union”, which underneath his Management was expanded to incorporate a representation of all Worldwide Employees in UN Peacekeeping, thus becoming the sphere Staff members Union. Immediately after finishing two phrases in Workplace he returned to work throughout the ICT sector and subsequently labored in UNTSO, Jerusalem, UN-Headquarters, Ny, UNGSC, Brindisi and finally UN-Entebbe, Uganda. He retains a Learn’s of Science diploma in Worldwide Management within the College of Liverpool.
Mark is obsessed with Leadership, Technology, Human Legal rights and equality. He also incorporates a passion for lifelong learning and is particularly an avid reader. He has served on innumerable FSU Committees in several capacities championing personnel leads to throughout his 27-calendar year occupation inside the UN. He is a skilful negotiator, mediator and author. He has an modern state of mind in addition to a major image vision. He's philosophical and has a eager comprehension of proper and wrong, ethics and integrity, and communicates his thoughts and convictions Evidently and passionately.
Mark is often a citizen in the Netherlands, born in Belgium to two Dutch Moms and dads. He grew up in an extremely little village in The agricultural Netherlands. He speaks fluent English and manages rather in Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and a little bit of Arabic. As being a youthful gentleman of 16 decades, he joined the Royal Netherlands Navy, which charted his Global adventure. He's Fortunately married and has two Grownup phase-children in addition to a twenty years old son.
He intends to steer the FSU by instance, emphasizing integrity, honesty, and steadfast employees illustration for all UN Worldwide team Doing work in UN Peacekeeping. He hopes to bring impressive options that are mutually useful to workers as well as Business.
Liliya Galieva
Considering that the early stage of my job, subsequent graduation from Gorky Condition Linguistic University in Russia, I labored with international businesses including the Planet Bank (1992-1993) and American Council of Lecturers of Russian (ACTR), an American NGO underneath the auspices of the program on the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of The usa Office of Condition. I had been proud to lead to the event of my city of Nizhniy Novgorod (by the way the city hosted Football Cup 2018 in Russia) when working on Earth Bank initiatives of upgrading public transport, finance and housing units. Much more appealing and gratifying time was when I worked for ACTR (1993-1998), addressing exchange programs for college students and College professors. Simultaneously, I pursued my Regulation Degree at Gorky State College. Later, I became an Trade university student myself and obtained Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship grant at Harvard College (1998-2000). Which was an exuberant time and location, the place I achieved probably the most amazing people and was exposed not merely to tutorial minds and souls but also to passionate and devoted men and women from everywhere in the world. That was the key advantage of staying a university student of Kennedy School of Government, my 2nd Alma Mater.
After Harvard University, my era of UN has begun and carries on however. During the year 2000 I joined the UN Peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, following the establishment of UNMIK by SCR 1244 in 1999. Getting a Civil Affairs Officer, I used to be privileged to operate on distinctive projects and in numerous areas of Kosovo, ranging from central Kosovo, from the North Mitrovica location (engaged in submit-conflict reconstruction, humanitarian guidance, and native potential building through democratic elections) and continuing inside the West of Kosovo, the place I used to be serving as The top of Industry Office coping with non-vast majority concerns, cultural heritage, returns and ad hoc safety incidents impacting non-greater part communities. It had been an incredibly hard and appealing career, which was absolutely fitting my identity While using the cornerstone remaining helping the susceptible. Remaining Element of community government buildings, I acquired area languages (Serbo-Croatian, and I had been midway with colloquial Albanian) Moreover to my English, German and rusty Spanish. Italian is likewise progressing properly. At the moment, I am an incumbent UNFSU VP because 2019 and my two-year tenure coincided Using the CoviD-19 pandemic and also the challenges of changing to the several modes of work and representing the international team in industry missions as UNFSU VP.
My personalized problem was to raise up my son and an orphan nephew, remaining a distant-Handle mother and aunt. They both of those are about thirty now and they are on the ideal observe. Not too long ago I became a grandmother of a wonderful granddaughter Ekaterina. Daily life goes on.
To expertise travelling adventures, seeing new destinations, Assembly new individuals, Discovering new languages is my enthusiasm. My second enthusiasm is sports activities. Pilates keeps my head and entire body in sanity shape. Bicycling and climbing permit me to learn the beauties with the nearby mother nature.
In 2006, I used to be elected as Vice-Chair to FSU Council in UNMIK. And I have confronted numerous worries considering that that period such as the challenging downsizing system in 2012-2013, when UNMIK FSU pushed the mission leadership to accommodate downsized personnel to various missions, by producing a letter for the incumbent SG, Ban Ki-Moon. A further wonderful success, which UNMIK FSU reached under my Management and assistance of world FSU in 2018 was a review with the Hardship classification of Duty Stations, Pristina and Mitrovica, and that is in impact due to the fact January 2019.
Throughout my tenure as UNFSU VP, I had been A part of the SMC WG on Mobility and Collection, Downsizing, Overall performance Administration coping with the procedures. I helped our colleagues from Haiti mission to problem the Management choice to chop the entitlements retroactively due to Covid -19 plus they had been prosperous in winning the MEU situations. Our Team worked on variations inside the UNFSU Structure to be able to streamline it with a far more progressive technique for representing the staff members. I also labored on personal scenarios from the personnel about Cigna and UN Pension Fund. Our group proven lawful assistance to our colleagues throughout the UN retirees Performing pro bono and aiding the personnel to arrange instances to the UN inside Justice procedure. UNFSU Group Foreseeable future was actively engaged with DMSPC pertaining to accommodating the downsized staff from closing missions UNAMID, UNOGBIS and Burundi. Greater than one hundred colleagues ended up put in different missions and had been in the position to continue to keep their jobs. And it continues to be a work in development.
Consequently, I'm on the lookout forward to becoming re-elected for an additional expression and characterize all UN Intercontinental Team in the field missions with pride and dignity and carry on combating for suitable problems of assistance and payment for all hardship that our team is encountering in different missions.
Leila Manly-Spain is an Administrative Officer and among the incumbent Vice Presidents of the current Leila Spain UNFSU Executive. Her United Nations profession started out in 2004 when she joined the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) like a United Nations Volunteer (UNV). She has considering that then labored UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), United Nations Assist Office environment for Somalia (UNSOS), UN Regional Assistance Centre, Entebbe until eventually she and her workforce, Workforce Upcoming were being elected to function the UNFSU Govt Staff in September 2019.
An accountant by career, she can be a Accredited Education Specialist (CTP) and serves being a Peacekeeping Education Officer inside the Business. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the College of Sunderland which is at this time pursuing a certification in Human Assets Management, to empower her to better provide the team of UN subject entities.
Leila is captivated with Management and workers leads to, especially in the sphere of Mastering and progress. She has served in Discipline Workers Unions (FSU) committees because 2006 and has been thriving in championing several personnel triggers. She is an avid coach, specializing in UN competencies and also other human (delicate) abilities. Leila is noted for her Electricity, zest UNFSU Election for life and ability to generally be frank and authentic.
Leila is actually a Guinea Bissau national, born in Egypt, to diplomat moms and dads and For that reason grew up in Russia, the United States, The Gambia and the uk. She's fluent in English, Portuguese Creole, English Krio, and Wolof. She may also get by in French, Spanish and Italian. Remaining an item of a multicultural upbringing, she is often open to new experiences and is very respectful and appreciative of cultural dynamics and diversity issues. Leila is married with a few youngsters.
Leila is driven because of the belief that not a soul need to ever experience by yourself in their tricky instances and has been acknowledged to serve all staff members (Worldwide and countrywide), as she actually lives the UNFSU motto, that we have been “Stronger jointly”.
Leila hopes to be able to go on to serve the astounding personnel of the UN discipline entities and to provide her love of lifetime, diversity, Management and pursuit of excellence to the FSU Government Body. She's relying on your vote to produce this a truth and is also hopes to say, “Thank you, with the privilege and honour of doing so”.