Yujun Pian
Chief of Section, Information Management
What brought you to a career in technology at the United Nations?
The noble mandate of UN to serve the people, sustain global peace, and support global development.
What has been your favorite technology project or initiative at the United Nations and why? What was your contribution?
It's a series progressive projects with the theme of providing an enterprise collaboration platform to facilitate better and easier information creation, sharing, distribution, storage, and protection, a platform that support the full information for the business entities to do their daily job.
What advice would you give women interested in pursuing a field in technology?
ICT field, as all other STEM fields, requires robust knowledge, scientific logic and critical thinking. Hardworking and professionalism are the 2 very important building blocks for a successful career in this field. In addition, be persistent, open to change, learn from effective leaders, proactively connect to the business domains you are supporting, and most importantly enjoy the work.