UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem carries the United Nations flag during the closing ceremony of the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25. © Nairobi Summit
Executive Leadership Photo Gallery
Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem closes a celebratory Nairobi Summit, where more than 8,300 delegates from around the world threw their support behind realizing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all. © Nairobi Summit
Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem meets with Dechen Wangmo, the Health Minister of Bhutan. © UNFPA Bhutan/Nilanjana Bose
Dr. Natalia Kanem spends time with midwives and UNFPA staff at the D5 reproductive health clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown
Dr. Natalia Kanem visits the D5 reproductive health clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown
Dr. Natalia Kanem attends a focus group discussion with Rohingya women in the Lambasia women-friendly space in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown
Dr. Natalia Kanem meets a new mother and her baby at the D5 reproductive health clinic in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown
Dr. Natalia Kanem meets a midwife serving Rohingya women in the Lambasia women-friendly space in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown
Dr. Natalia Kanem attends a focus group discussion with Rohingya women in the Lambasia women-friendly space in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Lauren Anders Brown
Dr. Natalia Kanem at UNFPA Headquarters in New York. © UNFPA/Rand Jarallah
Dr. Natalia Kanem at the 9th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights. © UNFPA Viet Nam/ Vu Ngoc Dung
Dr. Natalia Kanem speaking at the 9th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights © UNFPA Viet Nam/ Vu Ngoc Dung
Dr. Natalia Kanem with a Syrian mother and her newborn at the Zaatari Maternity Clinic in Jordan. © UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert
Dr. Natalia Kanem holding a newborn at the Zaatari Maternity Clinic Clinic in Jordan. © UNFPA Jordan/Elspeth Dehnert
Dr. Natalia Kanem at the launch of the State of the World Population Report 2017. © UNFPA/Digby Oldridge
On 3 October 2017, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Dr. Natalia Kanem Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. © UN Photo/Mark Garten
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) swears in Natalia Kanem as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund. © UN Photo/Cia Pak