Executive committee
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Tanya Quinn-Maguire
President - Executive committee
President - FICSA Secretariat
Tanya Quinn-Maguire
President - Executive committee
President - FICSA Secretariat
Tanya Quinn-Maguire was elected FICSA President in January 2020. A UNAIDS staff member, she has been part of the FICSA family for over 12 years, actively participating in Standing Committees at FICSA Council including HRM, GS, SMR and SOCSEC/OHS. Most recently, she served as the co-Chair of the Standing Committee on Social Security and Occupational Health and Safety (SOCSEC / OHS) for five years. Through that role Tanya was the FICSA focal-point on the UN Working Group on After-Service Health Insurance (ASHI) and has actively championed issues related to staff mental health and wellbeing in particular. She was nominated as the FICSA focal point for the UN System Strategy on Mental Health and Wellbeing and continues in this role as the FICSA representative on the MHS Implementation Board. As a staff member with UNAIDS, Tanya worked as the secretariat for the UNAIDS Secretariat Staff Association for 12 years. She is a passionate supporter of staff rights and is proud to be an international civil servant for the United Nations. She has almost twenty-five years’ experience in the UN system and is a mother to two daughters.
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Cosimo Melpignano
General Secretary - Executive committee
General Secretary - FICSA Secretariat
Cosimo Melpignano
General Secretary - Executive committee
General Secretary - FICSA Secretariat
Cosimo, or Mino as he is known by the staff of the UN Common System, has a strong background in international logistics and the startup and winding down of Peacekeeping Missions.
He is a HR Professional with specialization in international recruitment and in vetting international recruitment processes. He has extensive experience in organizational review and restructuring processes.
He had over twenty years of staff representation experience, in various function as the President of the UNGSS Brindisi Staff Union, as well as having served as the European Representative for the Federation of International Civil Servants Associations and Coordinator for the Federation of National Staff Association.
Prior to being elected as the General Secretary of FICSA, Mino was the Chair of the Field Standing Committee in FICSA.
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Jérôme Zanga Foe
Treasurer - Executive committee
Jérôme Zanga Foe
Treasurer - Executive committee
Jérôme was elected Treasurer during the 75th FICSA Council in 2022.
Joined WHO/HQ in 2015 and was elected staff representative in 2019. Currently treasurer of the WHO/HQ Staff Association.
Member of the Geneva Local Salary Survey Committee and serves as WHO/HQ staff representative for General Services and Professional categories salary surveys.
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Line Kaspersen
Second of two Members for Compensation Issues - Executive committee
Line Kaspersen
Second of two Members for Compensation Issues - Executive committee
Line Kaspersen was elected as one of two members on Compensation Issues during the virtual FICSA Council of February 2021. She has been an active member of the Association of Professionals in FAO, the organization which she represents, for about three years, and been active in the Standing Committee on Field Issues for one year, after she was elected a vice chair for the committee during the first FICSA council she participated in, in London, February 2020. In particular, she has championed issues related to field duty stations as well as those of the conditions of service for all categories of UN staff, including professional, general service, national and consultants. She is an economist by training and specialized in the agricultural field and in areas of public sector strengthening. She is honored to have been part of the UN civil servants corps for 10 years, first in IFAD and then in FAO; and looks forward to taking on this important task of service to the FICSA member associations. She is currently based in Kampala, Uganda; is married and has two young children.
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Véronique Allain
Member for Regional and Field Issues - Executive committee
Regional Representative for Americas - Regional Reps
Véronique Allain
Member for Regional and Field Issues - Executive committee
Regional Representative for Americas - Regional Reps
Mrs Véronique ALLAIN is Senior Team Assistant within the UN ENVIRONMENT out-posted office, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), in Montréal, Canada. She has been working at the SCBD since 1999, with previous experience in other international organizations, i.e. the World Bank in Washington D.C., UNIDO and the French Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE, now the OSCE) in Vienna, Austria. Véronique has been a member of the Executive Committee of the SCBD Staff Association since 2000, in various capacities (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Information Officer). She has been designated as the FICSA Focal Point within the SCBD SA since joining FICSA in 2002.
Véronique has been closely involved with the Federation since 2007 in various roles, such as Regional Representative for the Americas, Member without Portfolio and Member for Field and Regional Issues. Véronique holds a Bachelor’s degree in English literature, with a certificate in translation (from English or German or Spanish into French) from the Université Catholique de l’Ouest, in France. Being a passionate linguist, Véronique is fluent in four languages and has developed a great interest for field-related matters at the FICSA level, in particular advocating for staff members working for the UN, but away from the Headquarters, the so-called H duty stations.
Her versatile personality and experience help her blend very well in an international work-setting where she enjoys the company of colleagues coming from all parts of the World.
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Tracy Tollmann
Member without portfolio - Executive committee
Tracy Tollmann
Member without portfolio - Executive committee
Tracy Tollmann was elected as the FICSA member without a portfolio in February 2021 at the 74th FICSA Council.
A UNFCCC staff member for 22 years, she has worked at both the G and P levels, with eight years in administration and logistics, and the remainder in process management, coordinating and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to deliver major climate change events and liaising with High-level participants. Tracy has served two terms on the Staff Associations Executive Committee in this time, where she has negotiated for improved staff working conditions, overtime pay for G-staff on mission, G to P career development, spousal employment and, more recently, representing staff interests during a two-year secretariat-wide restructuring. She experienced her first FICSA Council in London last year, where she took on the Rapporteur role for the standing Committee on Staff/Management Relations (SMR) and then graduated to the Vice-Chair of this SC just before the 74th Council started in November of last year.
Tracy is a trained Registered Nurse and a real people person. She values fairness and respect for others above all, and this is what brought her to champion staff members interests and rights. As the Chair of her local community theatre, Director, Actress and public-speaker, she is comfortable speaking up on the behalf of those who are unable or unwilling to do so, and to give them a voice.
