Ms. Jyoti Mathur-Filipp has been selected by the United Nations Secretary General as Executive Secretary for the Secretariat that will lead the global negotiations on a new treaty on plastics. She will assume her new functions as Executive Secretary on 15 August, 2022. Ms. Mathur-Filipp brings to the position 28 years of experience in the United Nations system, environmental conventions and global environmental funds. She currently serves as Director for Implementation at the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), leading the work on the development and negotiations for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. During her career, she has worked with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Over the years, she has covered a wide range of topics, from environmental governance and negotiations, to policy, programming, partnership development and resource mobilization. Ms. Mathur-Filipp also has in-depth experience working with private sector partners, including with NetAid – the first private-public partnership between the UN and a large corporation – the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH), REDD+ in Jakarta and Geneva, as well as with the Secretariat of CBD. She holds a Master of Science (MSc.) in urban planning from the New School for Social Research and an MBA from Baruch College. We wish her the very best!