Furio De Tomassi, is the talent scouting expert of the future UN Managers. As head of Human resources for Technical Cooperation Unit, since 1992 he has been the man behind the scenes of the so called "Associate Experts Programme" (AEP).
AEP was suppose to offer young professionals who are graduates from universities or institutions of higher education an opportunity to acquire professional experience in the technical cooperation of the United Nations Secretariat.
During the years AEP was responsible for bringing in "experts" who may have had limited or no professional experience. This is not actually a problem, since it is foreseen under the MoU's that UN-DESA has with many countries. These experts were/are suppose to work and acquire expertise/knowledge and practices in development projects or regional projects or regional activities within the UN's wide fields of competence.
AEP Experts are provided by the eighteen governments that participate in the Associate Experts Programme (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom).
The rules says that AE's (Associate Experts) should have been generally nationals of these countries. Some of these countries, however, agree to finance nationals of developing countries, particularly of least developed countries, as associate experts.
But how did Mr. Furio De Tomassi performed during these years? Have he ever broken the rules on AEs? When and How?
1 comment:
he performed pretty well.
His task was not to recruit, however...
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