His Excellency Ambassador Csaba Kőrösi
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Member of the Board of Patrons
Biographic sketch
H.E. Ambassador Csaba Kőrösi is a career diplomat. Internationally trained, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary in 1983 and has spent his professional life in public service, combining national duties with assignments received from various international communities. Highlighting the “multifaceted challenges” stemming from the non-sustainable way of human operations, including food and energy insecurity, climate emergency, water crisis, biodiversity loss, but also armed conflicts, rising debt, and urgent humanitarian and protection needs, he was the President of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and a strong supporter of inclusion of scientific methods and evidence into the political decision shaping. Previously, he served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations, as Vice-President of the 66th session of the General Assembly. He was a co-chair of the UN intergovernmental negotiations (Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals) tasked with producing the 2030 Agenda program. In various government and public roles in Hungary, Mr. Kőrösi was responsible for his home country’s security policy, multilateral diplomacy and human rights cooperation. As State Secretary of the Office of the President of Hungary, Mr. Kőrösi worked alongside the President of the Republic in discharging his functions as a member of the High-level Panel on Water, co-convened by the UN Secretary-General and the President of the World Bank Group. He performed a similar role in the framework of the Water and Climate Leaders Panel, co-convened by the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization and the President of UN-Water. He also served as Hungary's Head of Mission to Greece and the United Arab Emirates. In addition to being a Member of the Board of Patrons of the World Sustainability Forum, Mr. Kőrösi is a founding member of the Hungarian Scientific Panel on Climate Change and a permanent invitee to the Presidential Committee on Sustainable Development at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National Council on Sustainable Development at the Hungarian National Assembly. He is a member of the UN General Assembly Presidents’ Council. Among Mr. Kőrösi's distinguished decorations and honours are the:
September 2023 |