Shefali Juneja elected as first woman chairperson of United Nations's ICAO

New Delhi, September 17 : In a proud moment for India, India's Senior bureaucrat Shefali Juneja has been elected as the Chairperson of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Aviation Security Committee.

 

With this appointment, Juneja will become the first woman to lead this strategic committee for the United Nations' body.This will see India taking charge of the position after a gap of 12 years. Juneja was serving as India's representative in the council of the ICAO since 2019.

 

Juneja, a 1992 batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre), served as the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation before joining the ICAO. She was appointed as the Representative of India in the council for a period of three years, replacing senior IAS officer Alok Shekhar.

 

Prior to joining the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Juneja served on many sensitive and challenging assignments, semi-judicial positions, and administrative and financial positions in the government as a civil servant.

 

 

ICAO is United Nations specialised agency funded and directed by 193 national governments to support their diplomacy and cooperation in air transport. Its core function is to maintain an administrative and expert bureaucracy (the ICAO Secretariat) supporting these diplomatic interactions and to research new air transport policy and standardization innovations as directed and endorsed by governments through the ICAO Assembly, or by the ICAO Council which the assembly elects.

 

In addition to these core diplomatic and research capabilities, ICAO also serves as a critical coordination platform in civil aviation through its seven Regional Offices.

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