<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">UNESCO is seeking the appointment of a renowned scientific leader and administrator to serve as Executive Director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) based in Trieste, Italy. UNESCO promotes international cooperation in science in the interests of peace, human rights and development. The Academy is administered by UNESCO within the Natural Sciences Sector (SC), and operates under the direction of a Steering Committee appointed by UNESCO and the Italian Government, as well as the TWAS Council. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The main objectives of the Academy are to </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">(i) recognize, support and promote excellence in scientific research in the South; </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">(ii) provide promising scientists in the South with the research facilities necessary for the advancement of their work; </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">(iii) facilitate contacts between individual scientists and institutions in the South; (iv) encourage North-South cooperation between individuals and centres of scholarship; and </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">(v) promote scientific research on major challenges faced by developing countries.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Arial; min-height: 9.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">TWAS is also responsible for the administration of three organizations hosted by the Academy: the Inter-Academy Panel on International Issues (IAP), the Inter-Academy Medical Panel (IAMP) and the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS). </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">How to apply </span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Candidates wishing to apply for this post should do so through the following website: <a href="http://www.unesco.org/employment">http://www.unesco.org/employment</a> </span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Candidates without easy access to the Internet may, exceptionally, apply by mail, by sending a full curriculum vitae in English or French, preferably on the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">official UNESCO curriculum vitae form, showing their nationality, date of birth and gender, to: </span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Chief, Recruitment and Staffing Section, Bureau of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; font-weight: normal; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Human Resources Management</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">, UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07-SP, France. </span></font></span></span></font></b></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">An Assessment Centre may be used in the recruitment process of this post. </span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Applications should reach UNESCO</span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> before 8 December 2009. </span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Please quote post number</span></font><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> “EU/VC/ITA/SC/0824”. </span></font></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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