Rajat K Gupta of Mckinsey and Company has been elected co-chairman of the United Nations Association of the USA.
Gupta, who has also been associated with the UN in other capacities, succeeds John Chalsty who stepped down after a two-year term. He will share the post with Josh Weston.
Gupta has been actively involved with the UN for several years in an advisory capacity and he is a member of the Board of the Global Fund to Combat AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
UNA-USA is the largest grassroots foreign policy organisation in the US, and the nation's leading centre of policy research on the UN and global issues.
"We are extremely pleased that Rajat and Josh have accepted this appointment," said William Luers, president of UNA-USA, which is a member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.