The InterDependent

Samir Sanbar is executive editor of www.unforum.com. He is a former assistant secretary-general for public information and head of the Department of Public Information, both at the UN. A graduate of the American University of Beirut, he worked for several Middle East media groups before joining the UN in New York. From 1975 to 1982, he headed the Information Center in Beirut while helping to establish the UN Interim Force in Lebanon. He later headed the network of 78 UN Information Centers around the world. In additin, he served as director of the Department of Public Information's External Relations Division and as the secretary-general's special representative to oversee the referendum in Eritrea. Sanbar lives in New York.