Expert Reports

Security Council Report: Special Research Report on the Appointment of a New Secretary-General:

• Report 1 - Appointment of a New Secretary General, Security Council Report, 16 February 2006

• Report 2 - Appointment of a New Secretary-General, Security Council Report 21 June 2006

• Report 3 - Appointment of a New Secretary-General, Security Council Report, 24 May 2011

• Report 4 - Appointing the UN Secretary-General, Security Council Report, 16 October 2015

• Report 5 - Appointing the UN Secretary-General: The Challenge for the Security Council, Security Council Report, 30 June 2016

Delphi Symposium, Delphi, Greece, 27 to 30 May 2010

• Report of the Delphi Symposium, “The United Nations in the 21st Century: The Role and Selection of the Secretary-General.”

Government documents

• Canadian Non-Paper - Process for the Selection of the Next Secretary-General

• ACT Non-Paper - Lessons Learned 2017

• ACT letter to the President of the General Assembly (December 2020)

• ACT letter to the President of the Security Council (December 2020)

• ACT Non-Paper - Selection and appointment of the Secretary-General for the term beginning in 2022

Supporting briefings and materials

• UNA-UK report: Arrangements for interruptions to a Secretary-General’s term of office, July 2024

• UNA-UK report: 10 ways to strengthen the UN Secretary-General selection process, June 2023

• 2006 UN Secretary-General Selection Campaign

• FES-NY briefing - A democratic UN starts with a democratic election of its leader

• UNA-UK briefing on the appointment process

• ACT Group and Elders Panel Discussion Meeting Report, September 2015

• One World Trust briefing on the institutional context of searches for a UN Secretary-General

• One World Trust briefing on the relevance of geographic rotation in appointing the next Secretary-General

• One World Trust briefing on the appointment of Trygve Lie as the first UN Secretary-General

• One World Trust briefing on the appointment of Ban Ki-moon as UN Secretary-General

• One World Trust briefing on the UN Secretary-General and the call for representation

• One World Trust briefing: Civil society sits down with Secretary-General nominees

• One World Trust briefing on the challenges of the UN Secretary-General’s appointment process for the relationship with the UN Security Council

• One World Trust briefing: Transparency and accountability in the UN Secretary-General appointment process measured against the UN’s own best practices