A former Nigerian Presidential Candidate and Ex-CBN Deputy Governor, Professor Kingsley Moghalu has appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS).

 ACUNS was established in 1987 as a non-for-profit organization. The organization whose membership is largely of scholars and researchers was established with the sole aim of research and teaching on the role of the United Nations system in international relations.

Making this announcement was Dr Lise Morjé Howard, the President of According to him, the news of his election was conveyed in a letter by President of ACUNS and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. He wrote: “On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the
United Nations System, I write with the news that the ACUNS Nominations Committee and Board of Directors have each voted unanimously to accept your nomination to join ACUNS as a Director, for the period June 2021 – June 2025,”

The newly elected Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Moghalu wrote:

“I am greatly honored to have been elected to the Board of Directors of ACUNS. I
look forward to contributing to the corporate governance and the substantive work of this distinguished global network. “That is to help shape the global thinking on how the UN system can adapt to the contemporary global environment and continue to be useful
to its nearly 200 member countries’’.

He is expected to deliver a Keynote address on ,“Change and Inclusion in the Time of COVID”. at the first plenary session of the ACUNS Annual Meeting come June 24. The erudite scholar and author will be speaking alongside Maria Espinosa, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador and President of the 73^rd Session of the UN General Assembly.