Ambassador Monica Juma, Kenya’s National Security Advisor and Secretary to the National Security Council, has broken her silence following her appointment as the next Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the UN Office in Vienna. In a statement dated Saturday, March 7, 2026, the newly appointed
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Monica Kathina Juma of Kenya as Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as well as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV). Juma succeeds Ghada Fathi Waly of Egypt, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her