UN Secretariat Building soars skyward, directly across the street from the GPF office
Special Representative of the Secretary General for Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah reports to the Security Council. To his right, Jorge Urbina, Ambassador of Costa Rica
Japanese ambassador Yukio Takasu briefs the NGO Working Group on the Security Council at a meeting organized by GPF. To his right, Doug Hostetter, Director of the Mennonite UN Office, and Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute
UK Ambassador John Sawers briefs the NGO Working Group on the Security Council. To his right: Kate Hunt, UN Representative of CARE International and Kirsten Hagon, Deputy UN Representative of Oxfam International. GPF organizes more than forty such meetings each year with Council ambassadors and UN officials
GPF Director Jim Paul presents a farewell scroll to UK Ambassador Sawers
Media trucks with their uplink antennas crowd together in front of the UN in late September, when the world's top political leaders gather for the opening of the General Assembly
Motorcycle police escorts wait for US President Barack Obama on UN Plaza
President Obama addresses the General Assembly. Behind him, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and GA President Ali Treki
Television crew interviews GPF's Jim Paul for analysis of events and policy debates at the UN. When the leaders are in town, GPF commentary is much in demand
Die Zeit correspondent Andrea Böhm interviews GPF Director Jim Paul
UN Security Council, a focus of GPF's work on security policy, votes on a resolution
Delegates in the Security Council chamber shortly before a meeting begins
Italian scholar Daniele Archibugi, speaks about his new book, "The Global Commonweath of Citizens" at a GPF luncheon. To his right, Jim Paul of GPF and Werner Puschra of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Under Secretary General Angela Kane presents at a GPF conference on the financing of the UN (Kane is sitting back to camera on the right)
In the GPF office: Ciara Gilmartin consults with Aida Worku
GPF Senior Fellow Barbara Adams (left) with Mia Adjali, a longtime friend of GPF
Evamaria Weisser (right) planning GPF website development with Fatima Ahmed
Iraqi parliamentary leaders visit GPF for discussion of legal and constitutional issues concerning Security Council authorization of the US-led multilateral force
Dutch Agriculture Minister Gerda Verberg speaks at a GPF-sponsered event on food policy during the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
Special Representative of the Secretary General Hédi Annabi gives a report on Haiti to the UN Security Council
Jens Martens, Director of GPF-Europe, meet with New York colleagues at the GPF office
François Buisson and Miriam Falk of GPF coordinate a joint project
Molly Anderson, lead author of an international scientific assessment of agricultural practices, speaks at a breakfast event sponsored by GPF, just prior to meeting with the UN General Assembly.
UN Peacekeeper on patrol in Africa
Ricardo Sanchez, Principal Officer of the UN Food & Agriculture Organization in New York, speaking at a GPF event of "Agriculture, Food & Climate Change"
GPF Director Jim Paul welcomes Said Djinnit, Special Representative of the Secretary General for West Africa, to a lunch at the GPF office
Elizabeth Lee of the World Council of Churches UN Office in conversation with Jim Paul
Austrian Ambassador to the UN, Thomas Mayr-Harting, greets Joanna Weschler of Security Council Report after a briefing of the NGO Working Group on Security Council, organized by GPF
GPF's spring team 2009 celebrates the posting of the new website in late May
GPF staff and interns at lunch in the UN cafeteria
Leila Farahani's birthday party in the GPF office
Evamaria Weisser and Leila Farahani study a new data chart on UN finance, prepared by GPF Senior Research Fellow, Klaus Huefner
Yera Ortiz de Urbina, counselor at the Mission of Spain, during an advocacy meeting with members of the NGO Working Group on Food & Hunger
GPF team members at lunch in the UNICEF courtyyard. Everyone in the photo is from a different country: Germany, Ireland, Denmark, France, Sweden, Sri Lanka, India and the United States
