Canadian gets official nod as new UN watchdog

Carman Lapointe-Young has been nominated to head the United Nation's Office of Internal Oversight Services.


UNITED NATIONS — A Canadian who was chief auditor for the World Bank will be the next head of the UN's internal watchdog agency.

Carman Lapointe-Young was approved for the job of undersecretary-general for oversight Wednesday by the General Assembly.

Lapointe-Young was appointed to the non-renewable five-year term as
head of the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services by
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

LaPointe-Young was appointed auditor general of the World Bank Group in August 2004.

She succeeds Inga Britt-Ahlenius of Sweden, who left this month after
issuing a final memo blasting Ban's leadership and blaming him for her
agency's problems.

Ban is reviewing the memo and has ordered a review of the UN's ability to investigative itself.