An Indian-origin employee at the UN has announced her candidacy to be its next Secretary-General. 34-year-old Arora Akankshais the first person to throw her hat in the ring against incumbent Antonio Guterres, who is seeking a second five-year term beginning January 2022 as chief of the world organisation. Akanksha, who is working as an audit coordinator for the United Nations Development Programme, launched her campaign with an online video. It shows Akanksha walking inside the sprawling UN headquarters, as her voiceover says that people who have come before her have "failed to hold the UN accountable".