A lifetime’s work. Communicating the work of the United Nations to the world.
Mita serves as Multilingual Coordinator for the Department of Global Communications and is extremely proud that her team was awarded the Secretary-General’s award for Multilingualism in 2023. She is retiring this year from the UN after decades of service and will share her huge experience of being at the ring-side of global affairs with us in Buckingham.
As the Deputy Director of the United Nations News and Media Division, she is responsible for the News and Content Branch, heading the UN’s flagship multimedia news service modernizing legacy brands of UN Radio going back to 1946 and responsible for multimedia news and storytelling covering the UN’s activities around the world in the six UN official languages, as well as Kiswahili, Portuguese, Hindi and Urdu. She has overseen the expansion of a network of partnerships with over 1,500 media outlets across all regions and languages.
Prior to that, she worked on strategic communications in a team under Secretaries-General Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan. A national of India, she has a Masters’ degree in International Relations from Yale University and a Bachelors’ degree in Political Science from the London School of Economics.