António Guterres: The Secretary-General Candidate Interview

António Guterres, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and former Prime Minister of Portugal, was interviewed at the International Peace Institute by Warren Hoge, IPI Senior Adviser for External Relations, on Wednesday, June 8, 2016.

The conversation is one in the series of interviews that the Global Observatory is conducting with all the official candidates for the position of United Nations secretary-general. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is stepping down after two five-year terms, and the new secretary-general will take office on January 1, 2017.