Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy

Macharia Kamau (Author) Macharia Kamau is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations. In this capacity, he served as Co-Chair of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals and the Co-Facilitator of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Prior to this, he served as the Ambassador of Kenya to the United Nations Office in Nairobi and has 24 years political, development and policy work with the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and other UN organizations. In 2014 he was awarded the Gold Medal Award for Environmental Diplomacy from the International Council of Environmental Law and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICEL/IUCN).Pamela S. Chasek (Author) Pamela Chasek is professor of political science at Manhattan College. She is the executive editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations, and reported from all of the meetings of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. She is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles on international environmental policy, including Global Environmental Politics, 7th edition, The Roads from Rio, The Global Environment in the 21st Century, and Earth Negotiations.David O'Connor (Author) David O'Connor is Permanent Observer of IUCN to the United Nations. From 2003 until 2015, he served as Chief of the Policy and Analysis Branch, Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, where he led and managed a team of policy researchers who provide the analytical direction and substance to the United Nations' work on sustainable development. In this capacity, he led the core UN Secretariat substantive team supporting the UN General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.

“The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 was a defining moment in United Nations history and no one is better placed than Ambassador Macharia Kamau to tell the story of how we achieved this transformative vision for a better world.” —Ban Ki-moon, Eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations“An inside look at the drama of the negotiations, and the creation of a new UN development paradigm.” —Shannon Orr, Bowling Green State University

• 1 Setting the Stage 2 Multilateralism: Complexity and Intrigues 3 Getting Started: Creating the Open Working Group 4 Uncertain Beginnings 5 The Cast of Characters 6 The Use of Process and Drama 7 The Birth of The Goals 8 Pulling It All Together: The SDGs And the Post-2015 Development Agenda 9 Transforming Our World 10 The Legacy of The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals