UNESCO is choosing a new director who will face a big funding shortage after US exit
Published on: Oct. 6, 2025, 12:53 p.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
PARIS, Oct 6: An Egyptian antiquities professor and ex-tourism minister is facing off against a Congolese economist who promoted schooling in refugee camps in a race to become the new director of UNESCO. Whoever wins will inherit a world body reeling from the Trump administration’s recent decision to pull the United States out of UNESCO, portending a big budget shortfall at the agency best known for its World Heritage Sites around the globe. UNESCO’s executive board begins voting Monday […]
