Vitaly Vanshelboim (United Nations)

Vitaly Vanshelboim is a United Nations senior official and international civil servant who first joined the United Nations in 1992. He has held positions as the Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at the UN Office for Project Services and the Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Infrastructure Impact Investments (S3I) initiative.
Vitaly was appointed the Chief Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in July 2006. In March 2020, he was appointed as Chief Executive of the newly-established S3I initiative working on the Sustainable Infrastructure Impact Investments.
==Biography==
Vitaly Vanshelboim was born in December 1969 in Chelyabinsk, USSR, now part of the Russian Federation. At the National University of Economics in Kyiv, he completed his studies in audit, accounting and financial analysis in 1990. He has a fellowship from the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS). Between 2010 and 2011 he attended the University of Navarra in Barcelona to complete an advanced management program. He is married with 3 sons.
After short stints in the private and public sectors between 1990 and 1992, he worked with the UN in his native Ukraine until 1997, when he moved to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In these cities, he worked as the Deputy Director of Resources with the Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe until 2001, when he moved back to the UN.
==Career at the United Nations==
Vitaly worked with the United Nations in Ukraine from 1992 until 1997 in several different positions. He eventually took on the position of UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Ukraine. After he left the UN in 1997, he held the position of Deputy Director of Resources with the Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe until 2001. In 2001, Vitaly returned to the UN and served in various roles. He was made the Director of Staff Administrative Services in Copenhagen between 2001 and in 2005 moved into the Office of Administration and Security in New York as the Director. Vitaly earned the position of Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in 2006. During his tenure in this position, Vitaly has overseen the completion of agreements to provide affordable housing and renewable energy in countries as diverse as Ghana, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Antigua and Barbuda, India, Guinea and Kenya.Modern Ghana: Ghana Gets $5bn UN Housing DealUrban Projects: Groundbreaking Deal to Bring Half a Million Homes to PakistanNigeria World: UN to Build 50,000 affordable housing units in Ekiti Xinhuanet: Kenya, UN launch 8,800 affordable housing units As of July 2020, S3I initiative has a portfolio of 1,310,000 affordable homes to be built around the world and sold to local citizenry on the basis of mortgage finance.
In March 2020, he was made the Assistant United Nations Secretary-General and Chief Executive of the UNOPS Sustainable Infrastructure Impact Investments (S3I) initiative. He will be the first UN official at this level to work out of Finland at the new S3I Hub in Helsinki, Finland. The S3i initiative channels investments made by private investors into sustainable projects as part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
==Publications and Op-eds==
*Lessons On U.N. Day: How The U.N. Beats 'Big Name' Multinationals, Forbes 2013.
==References==
Category:Living people
Category:1969 births
Category:Ukrainian diplomats