The UNU Council is the governing body of UNU and consists of 24 members appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Director-General of UNESCO. The term of office of members of the Council is 6 years. The president of a university is the head of academic and administrative affairs of the school and a member of the board of directors. Responsible to the board of directors, mainly responsible for the guidance, daily management, planning and coordination of university affairs. The campus of UNU headquarters assists the rector in his work in an efficient and timely manner. The appointment of the principal shall be made by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in consultation with the Director-General of UNESCO.

After consulting with UNESCO Director-General Kōichirō Matsuura, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed KonradOsterwalder as the new rector of the United Nations University.

According to the website of the United Nations, ostwald will officially take office at the headquarters of the United Nations University in Tokyo on September 1 2006, replacing HandvanGinkel, who has been the president since June 1997. He will be the fifth president of the United Nations University.

Ostwald is currently the Acting Dean of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. 1970 received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and worked in many universities and research institutions such as Harvard University and new york University.

Unlike universities in the traditional sense, UNU does not recruit students, but is a think tank of the United Nations and a place for scholars from all over the world to conduct research and exchanges. The UNU system currently includes 65,438+03 research and training departments and hundreds of cooperative schools and research institutions in more than 90 countries around the world.