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10 Question by Ivan Yerovi


What IS YOUR NAME and your last assignment with UNICEF?  
Ivan Yerovi, Representative in Angola

How old do you feel?  48

Where do you live?  Quito, Ecuador

What book do you currently read?  Thinking, fast and slow

If you could travel without restrictions, where would you go?  Norway and Iceland

Your best experience with UNICEF?
When James P. Grant came to Ecuador for a Global meeting on IDD and salt iodination

Your biggest challenge when working for UNICEF?
The level of bureaucracy and dealing with un-experienced colleagues who pretended to know more than CO staff with years of experience and knowledge

What is your biggest fear, in relation to the future of children? What is your greatest hope, in relation to children?
Fear: The situation of millions of children won't change
Hope: Governments around the globe assume their responsibility towards improving the situation of children

What is one piece of advice you would wish to give to the UNICEF Executive Director?
Listen to the field rather than HQ

Do you have any suggestions to improve XUNICEF - content, format, ideas, etc..?
I'm new to the XUNICEF so far all is OK

Comments

  1. Thinking Slow, Thinking Fast by D. Khanemann is among the most important books that I ever read. Here is a link . Summarized versions are available, but I recommend the real thing.

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