Ursula Wynhoven
Director and Representative for the United Nations/Head of UN Affairs, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Ursula Wynhoven is an international lawyer with more than two and a half decades of experience, most of which have been with the United Nations. She is Director and Representative to the United Nations for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Head of its UN Affairs Division.
Prior to joining the ITU, Ursula worked with the UN Global Compact, the UN’s corporate sustainability initiative, as Chief, Social Sustainability, Governance and Legal, where she led legal affairs, and developed and led programming on social sustainability and governance issues, spearheading initiatives such as the Women’s Empowerment Principles, Children’s Rights and Business Principles, and Business for the Rule of Law.
Before joining the UN, Ursula worked for the OECD on its corporate responsibility initiative, for government human rights agencies, and for law firms in Australia and the US.