{"id":7117,"date":"2015-09-14T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71development\/?page_id=7117"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T21:47:00","slug":"biography-mcmanus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/71\/pga-team\/biography-mcmanus\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael McManus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special Assistant to the Chef de Cabinet<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\"Michael<\/a>Michael McManus is the Special Assistant to the Chef de Cabinet of the Office of the President of the 71st<\/sup> session of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly. Michael served as\u00a0Speechwriter for the President of the 70th<\/sup> session.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining the Office of the President of the General Assembly, Michael worked for the Irish Mission to the United Nations in New York and was heavily involved in the negotiations which led to the agreement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<\/p>\n

He has also worked on human rights and development cooperation policy with Irish Aid, on organisational development with a local civil society organisation in Bangladesh as well as on children\u2019s rights with the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n

He speaks English, Irish, French and German.<\/p>\n