Representatives. Previously, The Governing Council was the decision-making body for the Programme, but it was dissolved following a resolution passed by the UN General Assembly. The assembly is a universal body composed of the 193 member states of the United Nations and convenes every four years at the Headquarters of UN-Habitat in Nairobi. The first assembly was held in May 2019. The presidency of the first assembly was held by Mexico. Mexico's presidency was represented by Martha Delgado Peralta the Mexican Undersecretary of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights. The second decision-making body of the programme is the executive board, which is made up of 36 member states elected by the UN-Habitat Assembly with representatives from every regional groups. The board meets three times annually. The Committee of Permanent Representatives of UN-Habitat (CPR) is composed of all Permanent Representatives accredited to the United Nations Office at Nairobi. The UN-Habitat secretariat is headed by an executive director nominated by the UN Secretary-General with the approval of the UN General Assembly. The current executive director is Maimunah Mohd Sharif of Malaysia, who was appointed in December 2017. The deputy executive director is Victor Kisob of Cameroon who was appointed by in July 2018. List of executive directors Arcot Ramachandran, India, 1978-1992 Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Canada, 1993-1994 Wally N’Dow, Gambia, 1994-1997 Darshan Johal, Canada, 1997–1998 Klaus Töpfer, Germany, 1998–2000 Anna Tibaijuka, Tanzania, 2000–2010 Joan Clos, Spain, 2010-2018 Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Malaysia, 2018–Present Before 2002, the title of the head of the programme was director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. World Urban Forum (WUF) The World Urban Forum is an international conference dedicated to urban issues, organized by UN-Habitat. It was established by the United Nations to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and how to ensure a sustainable urban development. It is organized biennially in the years between the UN-Habitat governing councils. World Urban Campaign (WUC) The World Urban Campaign is the world living platform on cities for sharing and learning on initiatives, actions and policies driving positive change towards sustainable urbanization. Coordinated by UN-Habitat, it is a global coalition of public, private and civil society partners seeking to raise the urban agenda. The campaign is UN-Habitat's partners' platform for the preparation of the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) held in 2016. World Habitat Day The United Nations