The Daily Bulletin Archive

Buffalo State's public administration program will host John Ericson, chief of the Outreach Unit in the Office of Human Resources Management of the United Nations in New York, on Thursday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in E. H. Butler Library 210.

Ericson joined the UN in Vienna in 1982 and has worked in social affairs, training, administration, recruitment, and staffing. He spent five years at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa as a social affairs officer. He has served in peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia and Cambodia, and has also worked in Bangkok and Nairobi. During this period, he was involved in the evacuation of UN staff from Ethiopia in 1991 and ran a polling station during the 1993 elections in Cambodia. This event is free and open to the public. Funded by the Grant Allocation Committee.