Jan Beagle

Jan Margaret Beagle is a diplomat from New Zealand, and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. She is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), appointed to this position by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on 23 June 2009. Ms Beagle leads UNAIDS efforts in promoting effective governance of the Joint Programme, providing strategic direction on political affairs and policy development towards the goal of reaching the end of AIDS by 2030 and the positioning of AIDS and UNAIDS in Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. She leads the overarching management functions of the UNAIDS Secretariat, in the areas of human resources, finance, budget, information technology and administration, to enhance UNAIDS’ capacity and efficiency to implement its mandate and vision.

Ms Beagle has held three Assistant Secretary-General level positions in the United Nations, as well as numerous senior positions in UN system bodies. She currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the High Level Committee on Management of the UN Chief Executives Board, the Chair of the ASG Advisory Group of the United Nations Development Group, and the Chair of the HLCM Steering Committee on harmonization of business practices. Within this interagency work, Ms Beagle helps drive a strategic and proactive change agenda to better support countries in the implementation of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, promoting interlinkages for joined up strategic action and results that put people at the centre and leave no one behind.

Ms Beagle is an International Gender Champion—a leadership network that brings together senior female and male decision makers to break down gender barriers—and is the co-Chair of the Champions Working Group on Change Management.

Ms Beagle holds a Masters degree with first class honours in History and International Relations from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Beginning her career in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as a delegate to the United Nations in New York, Ms Beagle has some 40 years of experience of multilateral diplomacy, working across the peace and security, human rights, development, management and gender sectors.

In her current position with UNAIDS, Ms Beagle played a leading role in the development of the UNAIDS Strategy 2016-2021, the first UN system strategy to be fully aligned with the SDGs following their adoption in September 2015, after a broad consultation in all regions and virtually. She has led a comprehensive organisational realignment, reform and mobility programme. She has consistently introduced new and innovative ways of doing business, including at UNAIDS leading the development and implementation of a unique joint planning, budgeting and accountability framework mechanism encompassing the Secretariat and eleven cosponsoring organisations which has important implications for recognition of collective work in the SDG era.

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