Meet the UNSC Chair
At this year’s YMUN Korea 2014, David Steiner –
an experienced YMUN chair from Silliman College, Yale University –
will be chairing the UNSC. He is an active member of
the Yale International Relations Association (YIRA) and a member of the YIRA
Board of Directors.
David has a wealth of experience stemming from his involvement
in organising various conferences under YIRA, having been the Co-Chair of the
Nuremberg Trials alongside Ben Della Rocca (who is chairing ECOFIN at YMUN
Korea 2014), the Director-General of Committees at Yale Model Government Europe
2014, the Chair of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at Yale Model United
Nations Korea 2013, the Assistant Secretary-General of Specialized Committees
at Yale Model United Nations 39, and the Crisis Director of Steel City Empire
at the Security Council Simulation at Yale. He has been involved in many forms
of Model United Nations in various countries for years, and clearly knows its
inner workings. After considering all his excursions into new, undiscovered
aspects of Model United Nations and his experience as a leader in various
committees, David feels that the committee he is most proud of being a part of is
the Brussels Press Corps.
In addition to this list of prestigious positions and
conferences, David’s Model United Nations career in fact
began when he was in high school, having attended a number of conferences each
year as a delegate. He has had a diverse experience in Model UN, ranging from important
roles such as Chair, Director-General, Assistant Secretary-General to being
assigned to small, relatively less prominent countries when he attended a large
conference as a high schooler. As an experienced Model United Nations Chair, David
encourages less experienced delegates to speak as much as they can, no matter
how nerve wrecking it can be. He believes that sometimes, the best way to
improve at making logical and coherent speeches and to overcome nervousness is
just to give speech after speech, seeing it as good form of practise.
David is very excited to part of the UNSC this year at YMUN Korea 2014. He is especially excited to discuss
with the rest of the delegates a legal framework for the conduct of cyber warfare.
Since no actual international legal framework currently exists, they’ll
really be working on the cutting edge, and David really cannot wait to dig in.
by Jasmine Lee
