Patricia Scotland KC

It has been the greatest joy and privilege of my life to serve as the 6th Secretary-General of the #Commonwealth. I am profoundly grateful to our member countries, @CommonwealthSec staff, partners and the entire Commonwealth family for walking with me on this journey.

RT @HonPhilipEDavis: Nobody welcomes you quite like Bahamians! 🇧🇸 Our young people gave His Majesty King Charles an experience he'll never forget, and they made us all proud!

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: #XXXVIIHLM | PANEL 4: From Ambition to FID: How COP31 Can Make Climate Commitments Investable Moderator: - Jean Baderschneider, Board of Directors, Fortescue Ltd.; Founder and Chair, The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; Vice President, ExxonMobil 2000-2013 Speakers: - Samed Agirbas (@samedagirbas ), Climate High-Level Champion of COP31; President, Zero Waste Foundation (@turkiyecop31 ) - Jules Kortenhorst, Co-Chair Energy Transitions Commission; CEO, Bridge Carbon; former CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute; former founding CEO, European Climate Foundation - Theresa May (@theresa_may ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2016-2019 - Faustine Delasalle (@FaustDelasalle ), CEO, Mission Possible Partnership; Executive Director, Industrial Transition Accelerator - Patricia Scotland (@PScotlandKC ), Former Commonwealth Secretary-General; Member of the House of Lords of the UK - Jonathan Silver, Chair, Global Sustainability Platform, Apollo; Former Head, DOE Loan Program Office - David Eaglesham, Co-founder and CTO, Electric Hydrogen - Nili Gilbert, Vice Chairwoman, Carbon Direct; Independent Board Director, Brookfield Asset Management; Chair, GFANZ Advisory Panel - Ayesha Choudhury , Chief Commercial Officer, Infinium - Osman Arslan, CEO, VakıfBank (@VakifBank ) #NewYork #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: #XXXVIIHLM | PANEL 4: From Ambition to FID: How COP31 Can Make Climate Commitments Investable Moderator: - Jean Baderschneider, Board of Directors, Fortescue Ltd.; Founder and Chair, The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; Vice President, ExxonMobil 2000-2013 Speakers: - Samed Agirbas (@samedagirbas ), Climate High-Level Champion of COP31; President, Zero Waste Foundation (@turkiyecop31 ) - Jules Kortenhorst, Co-Chair Energy Transitions Commission; CEO, Bridge Carbon; former CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute; former founding CEO, European Climate Foundation - Theresa May (@theresa_may ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2016-2019 - Faustine Delasalle (@FaustDelasalle ), CEO, Mission Possible Partnership; Executive Director, Industrial Transition Accelerator - Patricia Scotland (@PScotlandKC ), Former Commonwealth Secretary-General; Member of the House of Lords of the UK - Jonathan Silver, Chair, Global Sustainability Platform, Apollo; Former Head, DOE Loan Program Office - David Eaglesham, Co-founder and CTO, Electric Hydrogen - Nili Gilbert, Vice Chairwoman, Carbon Direct; Independent Board Director, Brookfield Asset Management; Chair, GFANZ Advisory Panel - Ayesha Choudhury , Chief Commercial Officer, Infinium - Osman Arslan, CEO, VakıfBank (@VakifBank ) #NewYork #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: #XXXVIIHLM | PANEL 4: From Ambition to FID: How COP31 Can Make Climate Commitments Investable Moderator: - Jean Baderschneider, Board of Directors, Fortescue Ltd.; Founder and Chair, The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; Vice President, ExxonMobil 2000-2013 Speakers: - Samed Agirbas (@samedagirbas ), Climate High-Level Champion of COP31; President, Zero Waste Foundation (@turkiyecop31 ) - Jules Kortenhorst, Co-Chair Energy Transitions Commission; CEO, Bridge Carbon; former CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute; former founding CEO, European Climate Foundation - Theresa May (@theresa_may ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2016-2019 - Faustine Delasalle (@FaustDelasalle ), CEO, Mission Possible Partnership; Executive Director, Industrial Transition Accelerator - Patricia Scotland (@PScotlandKC ), Former Commonwealth Secretary-General; Member of the House of Lords of the UK - Jonathan Silver, Chair, Global Sustainability Platform, Apollo; Former Head, DOE Loan Program Office - David Eaglesham, Co-founder and CTO, Electric Hydrogen - Nili Gilbert, Vice Chairwoman, Carbon Direct; Independent Board Director, Brookfield Asset Management; Chair, GFANZ Advisory Panel - Ayesha Choudhury , Chief Commercial Officer, Infinium - Osman Arslan, CEO, VakıfBank (@VakifBank ) #NewYork #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: H.E. Gordon Brown (@GordonBrown ), Prime Minister of the UK 2007–2010, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, and WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing, delivered remarks during “STATEMENT AND CONVERSATION 4: Presentation of Principles of Cooperation” of the XXXVII High-Level Meeting. #XXXVIIHLM #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: LUNCHEON of the XXXVII High-level Meeting Moderator: - Jehangir Khan, Secretary General of the Council of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly (UNCPGA) Speakers: - Srgjan Kerim (@srgjan_kerim ), President of the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia 2000-2001 - Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly; High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations 2013-2019 - Vuk Jeremic (@jeremic_vuk ), President of the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly - Volkan Bozkir (@volkan_bozkir ), 75th President of the UN General Assembly; Minister of European Union Affairs of Turkey 2014-2015, 2015-2016; Member of the Turkish Parliament - Csaba Korosi (@Csaba_Korosi_ ), President of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly - Dennis Francis, President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly - Miroslav Lajcak (@MiroslavLajcak ), President of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovak Republic; former EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues #NGIC #NewYork

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: “The Magic of the Pen – Selected Miniatures from the Khamsa of Nizami Ganjavi” has been presented to Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton ), Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation (@ClintonFdn ) by our Co-Chair Ismail Serageldin (@I_Serageldin ) and our Secretary General Rza Aliyev (@Rza_Aliyev_ ) presented the book.

RT @NOIweala: On the sidelines of #UNGA81 at the inaugural meeting of the Council on the Future of Global Education looking at the role of AI in bridging the considerable learning gap for children in lower-middle and low income countries through the medium of digitally delivered education services trade. The Council is co-chaired by The Right Honourable @GordonBrown, former PM of the UK, and Dr Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm, Chair of Gramercy Funds Management and Chair of the Center for Global Development @CGDev.

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: The day has arrived! Today, we are hosting our XXXVII High-Level Meeting “Rebuilding Trust, Cooperation and Global Stability for a Shared Future” - an official side event to the UN General Assembly in #NewYork. @UN #XXXVIIHLM #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: A family photo from the XXXVII High-Level Meeting “Rebuilding Trust, Cooperation and Global Stability for a Shared Future” @I_Serageldin @BY @volkan_bozkir @DrTedros @WHO @MladenIvanic @BorutPahor @LagumdzijaZ @Zaktweet @Csaba_Korosi_ @valstsgriba @AmreMoussaPR @tkesho3 @MelanneVerveer @PScotlandKC @MiguelMoratinos @aguribfakim @AmbElliott @jeremic_vuk @GPapandreou @Tzipi_Livni @ivojosipovic @KerryKennedyRFK @AnaBirchall @KatyaYushchenko @tfajon @moamersi

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: Our members participated in the "Launch of COP31 Action Agenda - From Ambition to Implementation: Introducing the #COP31 Action Agenda", hosted by the COP31 Presidency of Türkiye in #NewYork. @murat_kurum @samedagirbas @turkiyecop31 @AmreMoussaPR

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: Hosted by the COP31 Presidency of Türkiye, the “LDC-GIF Mechanism Introduction & High-Level Dialogue: Global Partnership for Green Industrialization and Technology Transfer” brought together key global leaders, including Members of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center. @samedagirbas @murat_kurum @turkiyecop31 @PScotlandKC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: Zero Waste Forum 2026 | Panel: “Trust, Fairness and the Human Side of Transition” Speaker: -Eka Tkeshelashvili (@tkesho3 ), Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012 #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: Zero Waste Forum 2026 | Panel: “Countries Leading the Circular Shift” Speaker: -Patricia Scotland (@PScotlandKC ), Former Commonwealth Secretary-General; Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: Zero Waste Forum 2026 | Panel: “From Marrakech to Antalya: Why Zero Waste Needs Multilateral Leadership” Moderator: -Zlatko Lagumdzija (@LagumdzijaZ ), Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the UN; Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2002; Deputy Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2012-2015 Speakers: -Csaba Korosi (@Csaba_Korosi_ ), President of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly -Salaheddine Mezouar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco 2013-2017; President of #COP22 -Michal Kurtyka, President, #COP24; Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland 2019-2021 -Borut Pahor (@BorutPahor ), President of #Slovenia 2012-2022 #NGIC

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: #NGIC Secretariat met with our member Patricia Scotland (@PScotlandKC ), former Commonwealth Secretary-General and Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, in #London.

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: The future of multilateralism is being shaped by leaders committed to dialogue, inclusion and global cooperation. Through dialogue, bridge-building and engagement across regions, the remains committed to supporting a stronger, more inclusive and more effective multilateral system. We are honored that distinguished Members of our Center are among the global voices contributing to discussions on the future leadership of the United Nations, including candidates for the position of Secretary-General. In a fractured world, principled leadership, diplomacy and international cooperation matter more than ever.

RT @NizamiGanjaviIC: World Urban Forum 13 (#Wuf13) | Panel: WOMEN’S ASSEMBLY: Co-creating gender-transformative strategies for adequate housing for all women and girls | Opening session Keynote remark: - Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (@aguribfakim ), President Republic of Mauritius 2015-2018 #NGIC @WUF_UNHabitat @WUF13Azerbaijan

RT @RoyalFamily: 🇧🇲👋 What a wonderfully warm welcome to Bermuda! Thank you to all who came out to say hello.   In King’s Square, The King was formally welcomed to the island with a military ceremony by the Royal Bermuda Regiment and a 21-gun salute.

RT @presidentaz: President Ilham Aliyev met with delegation led by President of Kenya.