Klaus Hüfner, former university professor (Freie Universität Berlin), has been engaged in many activities of UNESCO since the early 1970s. He is Honorary President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, Geneva/New York and Honorary Member of the German National Commission for UNESCO. Presently, he is engaged as: senior research fellow of the Global Policy Forum, New York/Bonn, consultant for UNITAR teaching activities about financing the UN system, and IREG audit coordinator, Brussels/Warsaw.