Stéphane Dujarric de la Rivière better known as Stéphane Dujarric was the spokesperson under UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...

 since 1 July 2005 to 31 December 2006.

He was replaced by the Haitian journalist Michèle Montas

Michèle Montas

Michèle Montas is an award-winning journalist from Haiti and the former Spokesperson under UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon . Prior to her appointment, Montas headed the French unit of UN Radio...

 when Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before going on to be Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he...

 became the new Secretary-General in January 2007. Ban Ki-moon then named him to his office as Deputy Communications Director. In the spring of 2008, Dujarric joined the UN Development Programme (UNDP) as Senior Advisor and Spokesman. He was then appointed UNDP's Director of Communications in March 2009.