The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs presents:
Judy Cheng-Hopkins, UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor on the University of Peace: “Career Conversations with Judy Cheng-Hopkins.”
Ms. Judy Cheng-Hopkins of Malaysia is the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the University for Peace.
Prior to this appointment of 15 September 2014, she served as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for Peace building Support. She was previously the Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees in charge of Operations (2006–09), active in over 118 countries.
Cheng-Hopkins hails from Penang where she attended St. George’s Girls’ School. She received an American Field Service scholarship to study in the United States. She has a bachelor degree in English Literature from Beloit College in 1976 and a Master’s degree in Economic Development from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in 1978, and diplomas from l’Universitéd’Haute Bretagne in France and Harvard University, USA.