Careers

Notes from LSE's Discover International Organisations day 2022 (includes information about UNDP, UNHCR, UNFPA, UNV)

Notes from talks at the LSE international organisations week in 2021 (includes information about the following organisations:  UNDP, UNFPA, UNHRC, IOM, UNV, WFP, OECD,  and The World Bank.

Careers with UN Organisations, Nov 2023 - recording (including insider insights from Katy Mackey UNV)
Careers with UN Organisations, Nov 2023 - slides

Careers with UN Organisations, Nov 2022 - recording from Wed 2 Nov, including 'insider insight' from Jennifer Kealy and Juliette McHardy (with Panopto generated captions, no login required).
Careers with UN Organisations, Nov 2022 - slides

Careers with UN Organisations, Oct 2021 - recording from Tues 26 Oct, including 'insider insight' from Hyun Young (Jade) Kim (with Panopto generated captions, no login required).
Careers with UN Organisations, Oct 2021 - recording from Wed 27 Oct, including 'insider insight' from Jennifer Kealy (with Panopto generated captions, no login required).
Careers with UN Organisations, Oct 2021 - slides.

Careers with UN Organisations, Oct 2020 - recording with captions/transcript (LSHTM login required). This is a recording of a workshop outlining routes into UN organisations, with contributions from students/alumni with experience working in various UN organisations.
Careers with UN Organisations, Oct 2020 - recording (no login required)
Careers with UN Organisations, Oct 2020 - slides

Careers with UN Organisations [Panopto recording], 20 November 2019 - a similar workshop to the 2020 one (above) but with different students contributing.

Alumni panel - working with UN Organisations, 24 Feb 2021 - recording with automatically generated captions and transcript (no login required).  Our panellists are Dr Kyaw Chit, Programme Analyst (SRHR), UNFPA (Myanmar), Alexandre Robert, Crisis Prevention and Recovery Specialist, UNDP (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Jonathan Latham, Humanitarian Analyst and Information Management Specialist working as a consultant with Unicef (and numerous other organisations internationally).  Read biographies of the speakers here.

Dr Ekua Yankah alumna talk.  Ekua has worked with UNESCO, Unicef, WHO and UNFPA amongst other organisations.  Read her biography here.

Notes by students from the presentations at the 2020 LSE International Organisations Week (includes information about the following organisations: ICRC, UNFPA, UNHRC, IOM, UNV, WFP, WHO, EU Careers, European Parliament, UNDP, OECD, World Bank, UN Secretariat).

Click on the following session titles for detailed notes from the following sessions in 2017: 

• An approach to a holistic career working for UN organisations; 
• World Health Organisation; 
• World Food Programme; 
• United Nations Population Fund.

Presentation by PH4D students about their 2019 visits to various Geneva organisations.  Notes from that presentation.