Membership
UNICEF Executive Board Membership
The Executive Board is made up of 36 Member States, elected to three-year terms by the Economic and Social Council, with the following regional allocation: Africa (8 seats), Asia (7), Eastern Europe (4), Latin America and Caribbean (5) and Western Europe and Others (12).
2024 Executive Board* | ||
Africa Algeria Eastern Europe Bulgaria | Asia Bangladesh
Cuba | Western Europe and Others Austria |
*This list reflects the results of elections to ECOSOC subsidiary and related bodies, which were held on 5 April 2023 at its seventeenth plenary meeting.
2025 Executive Board** | ||
Africa Equatorial Guinea
Bulgaria | Asia China
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Western Europe and Others Australia |
**This list reflects the results of elections to ECOSOC subsidiary and related bodies, which were held on 9 April 2024 at its twelfth and thirteenth plenary meetings. The list will be further updated once all 36 members of the UNICEF Executive Board have been elected.
Election to the Executive Board
Every year, usually in April or May, the Economic and Social Council elects United Nations Member States from the five regions to serve as members of the Executive Board.
Each newly elected member starts the following calendar year and usually serves a three-year term. Only a certain number of new members are elected to the Executive Board in any given year, to ensure continuity of experience.
Election of UNICEF Executive Board Seats | ||||
Regions | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Africa (8 seats) | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| Asia (7 seats) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Eastern Europe (4 seats) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Latin America and Caribbean (5 seats) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Western Europe and other States (12 seats)* | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
* The Western European and Others group has established a separate rotation scheme for its members under which some do not serve full three-year terms. The United States of America does not participate in this rotation scheme.
Election 2019–2023
(by United Nations Regional Group of Member States)
