Under-Secretary-General Faremo delivers statement at the Annual Session of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board in New York.

The Annual Session of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board will take place in New York at UN Headquarters. Board documents are available on the UNOPS website. The UNOPS segment will take place on 4 June 2018 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm (New York time), during which UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo will deliver a statement and present UNOPS Annual Report of the Executive Director to the Executive Board. The entire meeting will be available live on UN Web TV.

Thought leaders, business experts and innovators will explore the ability of artificial intelligence to generate business value during this event. UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo will deliver a keynote speech.

UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo and Millennium Challenge Corporation Acting CEO Jonathan Nash marked a new compact agreement that will support large infrastructure projects.

The Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN Women and WFP will take place in New York at UN Headquarters.

Following the announcement of UNOPS new partnership with IOTA, we caught up with our resident blockchain expert to hear more about the collaboration, and the exciting potential distributed ledger technology (DLT) could have for enhancing UNOPS operations.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in New York and Berlin.

Speech by Grete Faremo, Under-Secretary-Gene​ral and Executiv​e Director of UNOPS, Copenhagen, 11 April 2018

New study brings 13 authors together on a range of legal aspects of blockchain topics, including identity, data ownerships, cryptocurrencies, and its use in the UN system.

UNOPS Executive Director, Grete Faremo, and H.E. Dr. Bandar M. H. Hajjar, Islamic Development Bank Group (IDBG) President, signed a Memorandum of Understanding today.

Participants will assess efforts undertaken, as well as opportunities to strengthen the UN’s work on peacebuilding and sustaining peace. UNOPS Executive Director Grete Faremo will attend.

The new agreement between USAID and UNOPS represents a commitment to a stronger working relationship between the two organizations.