Museum for the United Nations - UN Live’s New Chapter: Welcoming our new CEO, Katja Iversen
The board and team are excited to welcome Katja Iversen as new CEO for the Museum for the United Nations - UN Live, starting September 1, 2023.
Katja brings a unique combination of significant leadership experience and life-long commitment to the United Nations, which positions her well to help bring UN Live into our next chapter, scale our work and deliver on our mission. This includes strong experience in agenda setting, advocacy, fundraising, partnership building, and in scaling and growing organizations, as well as leadership experience from civil society, the private sector, across the United Nations, including as Chief of Strategic Communications & Public Advocacy with UNICEF, Campaign Coordinator and Media Officer with UNFPA, and President/CEO of Women Deliver.
“Katja brings rich and valuable experience into the Museum for the UN - UN Live. She has strong networks in multiple sectors, she has advanced and scaled organisations to become globally recognised, and she has contributed in significant ways to getting Global Goals on the public agenda. Her long-time leadership experience, including at the UN, her insights and dedication to advancing global development and change, make her the ideal choice to lead UN Live in the next stage of our journey,” says Jan Mattsson, Chair of the Board of Directors at the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live.
Apart from her leadership experiences, Katja has also served as an adviser to the G7 leaders, leading corporates, to the World Economic Forum, to MIT’s Solve Challenge, Global Citizen and Global Goals World Cup, and multiple other institutions across the globe. Throughout her career, she has worked deliberately with tech and popular culture, including film, media, arts and sports communities, to build broader support to various Global Goals and drive social impact.
“Popular culture – be it sports, film or music, art or gaming etc.- has the power to mobilise, and make people see the world in a different light. I am very excited about joining the innovative team at the Museum for the United Nations - UN Live, as their new CEO. I’m energised by the mandate and by the power of popular culture, art and activism to rally the world around the values of the United Nations and towards positive global and local change” says Katja Iversen, the incoming CEO to the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live.
Museum for the United Nations – UN Live
Museum for the United Nations - UN Live was created with the mandate of the United Nations to connect people everywhere to the UNs values and goals. UN Live seeks to find radically different ways to inspire people, especially young people, to take local action and form a better future for people and planet - becoming agents of change. Backed by behavior change science, we know that popular-culture has the power to change mindsets and behaviour in a genuine and long-lasting way. That is why mobilising populare culture - in its broadest sense - is at the core of what we do.
By now, UN Live has successfully developed and tested local mass-culture programmes across more than 30 countries, and reached 65+ million people with engaging content around climate, biodiversity and health issues.
The coming months marks a new chapter of accelerating UN Live’s global impact, as we are preparing the launch of two large-scale programmes within film and music - built together with phenomenal partner organisations streching across nature conservation, climate change and global engagement.