Stephen Cutts

'Stephen Cutts is the Chief Executive Officer of Reach to Teach, an education charity working in Northern India and based in London and Ahmedabad. He is the former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for the Office of Central Support Services in the Department of Management. In addition to overseeing a wide-ranging global management portfolio, including procurement and property management, Stephen drove the adoption and implementation of flexible workplace in New York. He was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 3 April 2013.[1]

Biography

After graduating from INSEAD with an Executive MBA and a degree in English literature from the University of Keele, Stephen worked at the INSEAD Business School and served as its Executive Director, before joining the Commonwealth Secretariat in 2008.

Cutts served first as Director of Strategic Planning and Evaluation at the Commonwealth Secretariat, and then as Commonwealth Assistant Secretary-General for Corporate Affairs. In this position, he was in charge of the administration, finance, strategic planning and human resources matters.[2] As well as designing a new results-based strategic plan for the Secretariat, Stephen drove a major reform programme in the corporate areas of finance, and HR. Steve also designed and secured agreement of all Commonwealth member countries to a new scale of contributions and drafted and led negotiations for the Secretariat on the Commonwealth Charter, which was later signed by the Queen.

Before this, Stephen served in a series of progressively more senior positions in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD between 1995 and 2007), successfully negotiating a number of agreements among member governments, and was Chef de Cabinet/Chief of Staff to Secretary-General Donald J. Johnston from 2005 until the end of his tenure in 2006.

References
  1. "Secretary-General appoints Stephen Cutts of United Kingdom Assistant Secretary-General for Central Support Services". Press release. United Nations Secretary-General. 3 April 2013.
  2. "Stephen Cutts to be new Commonwealth Assistant Secretary-General for Corporate Affairs". Commonwealth News Release. 26 March 2010. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013.
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