[FWI] A Lebanese-Ecuadorian woman is chosen as UN Secretary General and shifts the agenda from climate change and the melting Russian arctic to focus instead on erecting a space elevator off shore Ecuador's coast line by 2049.
She takes power in January 1, 2027.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivonne\_Baki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivonne_Baki)