Marcio Barbosa, Deputy Director General of UNESCO, visited ICTP on 18 March. Barbosa met with the Director, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, and Senior Administrator, Dag H. Johannessen. He also heard brief presentations from each of the group heads. The meeting focused on future avenues of potential cooperation between the two institutions. UNESCO serves as ICTP's lead administrative agency under a tripartite agreement signed between UNESCO, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Italian government.