Dear Delegates,
Welcome to NCSC XXXVII! My name is Hijab Shah and I will be the chair of this year’s Security Council, along with Vice Chair Gilbert Glickstein and Crisis Manager Sam Ungar.
A little bit about me — I was born in Birmingham, England, raised in Peshawar, Pakistan, attended high school at an American school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and somehow ended up in D.C., where I am now a junior in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. I am a Culture and Politics major, with a concentration in Journalism and the Media. When not dozing off at the library at ungodly hours of the night, I can be found in the production office of Georgetown University’s student newspaper, The Hoya, where I work as the Deputy Sports Editor.
I have been involved in Model UN since my sophomore year of high school, and have continued through college, most recently serving as the Under Secretary General for ECOSOCs at NAIMUN XLVI. This will be my third NCSC — last year I sported a heavy accent and fake beard to chair the Tehrik-e-Taliban committee in the Pakistani Joint-Crisis, and I can not wait to get behind the dais once again!
The Security Council has traditionally been one of the most challenging committees of a Model UN conference, where high intensity crises are met with high quality debate. This year, the topics addressed by the Security Council will be the present-day issues of Terrorism and Ethnic Conflicts. Every nick and corner of the globe is affected either directly or indirectly by these conflicts, and it will be up to the residing members of the Council to set the agenda and address these issues head-on.
As ever, if you have any concerns or queries at all, please do not hesitate to email me.
Looking forward to welcoming all of you to Georgetown. Hoya Saxa!
Hijab Shah
Chair, United Nations Security Council
hss6@georgetown.edu
