The 'Most Impossible Job in the World': Will a Woman Become the UN’s Next Chief?

With the second term of the current United Nations Secretary-General, Antònio Guterres, expiring on December 31, 2026, the organization is in the process of selecting its 10th secretary-general. The UN’s first-ever Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, famously described it as “the most impossible job in the world .” That was at a time when there were 60 UN member states and the world’s population was…