Secretariat
Dr. Jehangir Khan, Secretary General of UNCPGA
Dr. Jehangir Khan has served in different capacities at the United Nations for over 30 years, both as a UN delegate and as a high-level UN Secretariat official.
Dr. Jehangir Khan was appointed Secretary General of the Council of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly (UNCPGA) on 1 June 2023. He previously served as Director of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) in the United Nations Secretariat. He also served concurrently as Director of the United Nations Counter Terrorism Center (UNCCT) within the UNOCT. Previously he served as Director of the United Nations Counter Terrorism Implementation Task Force Office within the UN Department of Political Affairs from 2013 to 2017.
Dr. Khan served as Director of the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Middle East and West Asia Division in the United Nations Secretariat and, before that, as Director of the Asia and Pacific Division in the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. Prior to that, Dr. Khan served as Chairman of the UN-Iraq Operations Group. Previous to this, he served as Deputy Head of Policy Planning in the Department of Political Affairs in the UN Secretariat.
Before joining the UN Secretariat in 1992, Dr. Khan served as Chef de Cabinet to the President of the UN General Assembly. Prior to this, he served as a UN delegate to the Political, Financial and Legal Committees of the UN General Assembly from 1983 to 1992, and to numerous International Conferences.
Dr. Khan is a national of Pakistan. He is a graduate of London University and holds a Doctorate in International Law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy/Harvard Law School.
Hugh T. Dugan, Senior Counselor of UNCPGA
The Honorable Hugh T. Dugan serves as Senior Counselor to UNCPGA. His career in the US diplomatic corps included serving for twenty-six years as senior advisor to eleven US ambassadors to the UN and as US Delegate to the UN. Mr. Dugan then modernized US capacity for hostage affairs as acting US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. He continued in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on the National Security Council as Senior Director for International Organization Affairs, which included US participation in the UN. He has been Senior Fellow at the School of Diplomacy, Seton Hall University, and a television commentator and columnist. The International Olympic Committee recognized him several times for reviving the Olympic Truce for the modern era through his NGO the Truce Foundation (www.trucefoundation.world). He is an alumnus of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Wharton School of Business.