Iranian student to work at UN commission

By Jhoo Dong-chan

Amaj Rahimi Midani, 28, an Iranian Ph.D. student at Pukyong National University in Busan, will work at the United Nations (U.N.), the school said Monday.

Completing the Ph.D. course in marine and fisheriesbusiness and economics, Midani successfully applied to be a researcher at the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD). He was appointed after three video interviews.

Midani will work for a month at UNCSD headquarters in New York City in June and then work at its research facility in Beijing, China, studying environmental issues.

“It was my dream to work at the U.N.,” Midani said. “I want to help the U.N.’s decision-making process with my studies of the environment.”

He came to Korea after graduating from Iran International University in 2009 with a major in industry management engineering.

He then entered Pukyong National University to work towards a master’s degree with a scholarship from Korea’s National Institute for International Education.

The UNCSD is a body under the U.N. Economic and Social Council, overseeing the outcomes of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, better known as the Earth Summit.

The outcomes of the summit included many environmental issues around the world, including sustainable development.