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Eric FaltEric Falt (born 22 August 1962 in Lyon, France) is a senior official at the United Nations.

He has been appointed Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Public Information at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) based in Paris, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General. Falt will assume his new functions in September 2010. As such, he will liaise with Member-states, representatives of civil society and the news media.

From 2007 to 2010, he served as Director of the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information, leading a total of 250 communications specialists, whose main function is to engage and educate people and their communities around the world in support of the United Nations ideals and activities.

Before joining the UN Headquarters in New York, Falt was Director of Communications for the [ [United Nations Environment Programme]] (UNEP) and Director of the UN Information Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, from 2002 to 2007.

Prior to that, he held various high-ranking public information posts at different UN duty stations, many of which were in post-conflict countries. In Cambodia, he was spokesman for the United Nations Transitional Authority, a position in which he assisted the country’s transition to democracy (1992 - 1993). In Iraq, he was in charge of information in the United Nations Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (1997 - 1998). He was serving in Pakistan when the events of September 11 unfolded (1998 - 2002).

Before joining the United Nations, Falt had served in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chicago and in New York.

External links

• UNESCO Director-General appoints her senior staff

• UNESCO Director-General's introduction of her new Senior Management Team to Member States

• The media man in the Cambodian sun

• Haiti Orders out Foreign Monitors of Human Rights, New York Times

• Standoff with Iraq: in Baghdad; Annan Reaches Iraq Today as Many U.N. Employees Pull Out, New York Times

• Secretary-General Appoints Eric Falt as Director of UN Information Centre in Islamabad, UN Press Release

• UN and Pakistan map Afghan future, BBC News

• A torch-bearer for the UN, BBC News

• United Nations courts Hollywood elite, Los Angeles Times

• Weighing the Tsunami's Environmental Impact, NPR

• 61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference

• La Directrice générale de l’UNESCO nomme une nouvelle équipe de direction