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I lead global communications for the @UnitedNations to promote a more peaceful, sustainable, just and humane world.
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One of the best parts of my job is getting to speak to young people, and especially to hear their questions and get their views. In the margins of the @parispeaceforum #PPF2026 I spent time with impressive Masters Students of International Governance and Diplomacy at @sciencespo (my daughter, Alessandra Thomsen’s alma mater).
We talked about the challenges of getting attention for the problems of our world and ways to break through the algorithm to engage the silent majority who want to make it better.
So impressed by their curiosity, intelligence, and aspirations to building a more just, equitable and peaceful world.
11 Nov 2026
This was sadly the final @antonioguterres retreat of @unitednations leaders as he winds up as Secretary-General.
While the session on diagnosing the state of the world was bleak, we left with renewed determination to keep working to make it better. And with his impassioned appeal to continue to defend the UN Charter and be guided by its principles and values. To never, ever give up.
I am grateful to him for giving me a seat at the table, which is a recognition that communications is key to advancing the goals of the UN.
03 Nov 2026
In 2024, @unesco recorded the highest number of killings of women journalists since 2017. Two thirds of them were killed in conflict zones.
These women inform us, and they hold power to account. They report on the reality of societies in conflict and crisis, and they bring forward perspectives that are too often left out: those of women, of civil society, and of the many actors who make a difference in their communities, sustain resilience and build social cohesion for sustainable peace.
Earlier this week, at the High-level event on Women Journalists In Crisis Situations at @unitednations Headquarters, we heard from them directly.
Women journalists are actors for peace, and protecting their ability to speak, report and participate is essential to the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
What an honor it was to moderate the event, alongside such distinguished women speakers: Amb. Aglaia Balta, Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Begoña Lasagabaster, @maria_ressa, Hamida Aman, Jineth Bedoya, Maryan Seylac, and Zeinab Mohammed Salih.
29 Oct 2026
What an enriching gathering last week’s Communicating for a Better World Conference at @columbia was!
Deeply grateful for this initiative, which brings together students, scholars, researchers, UN officials, and practitioners, in partnership with @unitednations communicators, around one goal: using communications to build a better world and advance solutions to global challenges.
Whatever we want to heal in this troubled world, communication is key.
When doing so, let’s all remember the three ‘W’s: “What? Why care? What now?”
Explain what needs to change. Give people a reason to care. Inspire them with solutions.
And above all, tell stories.
You’ll find people leaning in to listen.
A special thanks to Stefan Tschauko, Daniel Naujoks, Eli Karetny and my team for making this insightful three-day conference happen.
Thank you also to the hosting partners, Columbia World Projects and the CUNY Graduate Center and to all the funders.
28 Oct 2026
“It has been said that the United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell.”
That quote, now famous, first appeared in a speech by the second UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, in 1954. Put simply, it was a speech pleading for the international community to keep striving for peace. Messy, difficult, complicated peace.
Over 8 decades on, it’s worth reminding ourselves: We can draw a direct line between the creation of the United Nations and the prevention of a third world war. And while the UN also represents humanity’s highest aspirations — human rights, equality, dignity, justice, and the rule of law — it was not created to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell.
The UN’s vision is of all humanity living in peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet.
Our organization’s ambitions are so much more than dry reports and targets, they are the sum of our highest humanitarian values.
Those values, laid down 81 years ago in the UN Charter, are based on the core principles that we will never abandon — for the good of all humanity, and those yet to come.
The @unitednations is not only about milestones, but about people, stories, and the enduring values of peace, dignity, and solidarity.
On today’s #UNDay, as we mark 81 years since its founding, we are also reminded of the millions of women, children and men who make up its living legacy.
24 Oct 2026
There are more than 1.8 billion young people in the world today, the largest generation of youth in history.
One of my favorite parts of my job at the @unitednations is having the possibility to connect with so many of them.
Last week, I was energized by meeting such a fantastic group of young people from Serbia. We discussed how they can get involved in the UN’s work, bring their ideas to the table and get involved to help us shape a better future.
I also shared a little piece of advice – and that I want to share with all young people reading this post:
Choose a career of purpose.
Listen carefully to others. Try to understand people whose lives are different from yours. And always stick to the facts.
The UN needs you: we need your ideas, your energy and your incredible leadership.
Keep learning, keep speaking up, and keep working for peace and human dignity.
19 Oct 2026
Why do we need more women writers to be published? 📚
Because whose stories get told - and whose voices are heard - matters.
At @buchmesse 2026, we asked @melissarfleming , UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, @gvantsajobava, President of the @intpublishers, Katharina Raabe, Editor at @suhrkampverlag, @slavasvitova, Co-founder of @creativewomenpublishing , @mariposaolga, Programme Manager of #EU4GenderEquality programme, and @lizpirts , International Project Manager at @palitral.publishing to share their perspectives.
@unfpaeecaro
Here’s what they had to say.
Video recording:🎥 @zinografie
16 Oct 2026
I left the @buchmesse feeling energized. It was a celebration of the freedom to write, publish, and read against a backdrop of mounting outrage that AI has consumed, mostly without consent or compensation, the sum of human knowledge contained in books.
As an antidote, the Frankfurt Book Fair offered an exploration of creativity, courage and beauty. Authors reading from books that open minds and stir the heart. Writers describing their books that expose injustice or offer blueprints for a better world.
We can’t let machines take over our thinking and writing.
The human mind is unique, and yearns to be free.
- It was great to be with my team at @unpublications & to partner with the @intpublishers + @unwomen and to meet so many publishers, visionary thinkers + authors like Mariana Mazzucato, my colleague and co-author of Daybreak in Gaza Juliette Touma), readers, human rights activists + journalists who strive to make books thrive.
12 Oct 2026
The theme of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair is “This Changes Everything.” I am proud to be representing the @unitednations here and to find so many publishers featuring books and authors grappling with our troubled world and offering bold solutions to make it better.
What we read shapes who we are.
Books also connect us to a global community of people who have been informed, moved, and inspired by the same stories.
Coalitions are built, initiatives formed.
One of these initiatives is our annual Sustainability Summit with @intpublishers. Publishing associations pledging to integrate the SDGs in how and what they publish.
It was great to hear how over 300 publishers have signed on to the SDG Publishers Compact, pledging to promote sustainability, equality, and global development.
Together, @unpublications and @intpublishers also support a growing movement of SDG Book Clubs, which curates reading lists for children to help young readers engage with global challenges such as poverty, climate action, migration and equality.
Publishers have power to change our world.
09 Oct 2026
During #UNGA I had the pleasure to meet @earthgang while they were at the @unitednations to launch their new music track, “Cool Me Down” together with @drjazznicholson, @wellcometrust and the @museumfortheun.
Inspired by the extreme heat affecting communities around the world, the Cool Me Down track brings climate action, global health, and the power of popular culture together in a very special way.
It was great to learn of their passion and commitment to climate issues that echo the UN’s own, including the Secretary-General’s Call to Action on Extreme Heat and the importance of turning knowledge about the climate crisis into individual action.
Music has a power to move people and help connect us all around global issues, such as extreme heat and other climate effects we are all feeling around the globe.
#powerofculture #coolmedown
08 Oct 2026
One highlight of this #UNGA was meeting with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the first-ever @unitednations Global Advocate for Human-centric Digital Governance, a role affiliated with the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). You might know him as an amazing actor, writer and director, but he is also an outspoken advocate for the AI governed “by people and for people."
We discussed the dangers of rapidly advancing AI technologies without proper guardrails, and how we must push to protect human ingenuity and keep our children safe.
He is already doing so much to help people understand the implications of AI for the creative industries and is working on a Netflix thriller centered around the human experience in an AI world.
It is great to have his support for UN’s work towards a digital future that protects rights, advances sustainable development, and works for people everywhere.
01 Oct 2026
I was smiling in this photo, but I was actually feeling nostalgic as this was the last #UNGA for @antonioguterres and @aminajmohammed.
It’s been such an honor to serve under their leadership. Both so driven to make our world better for everyone, demanding of staff try harder - to innovative on how we solve problems and to build coalitions for change.
And they championed communications, allowing me and my team to modernize and experiment, continuously growing our global audiences and building a giant global community of @unitednations supporters.
30 Sep 2026
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