Hugo Scheltema

{{Short description|Dutch diplomat (1918–1996)}}

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|office = Chairman of UNICEF

|term_start = 1982

|term_end = 1983

|predecessor = Dragan Matelijak

|successor = Haydée Martínez de Osorio

|birth_date = 11 June 1918

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|death_date = 1 September 1996 (aged 78)

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Hugo Scheltema (11 June 1918 – 1 September 1996) was a Dutch diplomat. He served as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, as Chairman of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1979[https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en/former-presidents-1946-2001 Former Presidents, 1946–2004], United Nations Economic and Social Council and as Chairman of UNICEF from 1982 to 1983.[http://www.unicef.org/about/execboard/files/Executive_Board-Officers-2014-ENGLISH-10Jan2014.pdf Officers of the UNICEF Executive Board 1946–2014], UNICEF[http://www.unicef.org/about/history/index_55642.html Executive Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109155435/https://www.unicef.org/about/history/index_55642.html |date=2019-01-09 }}, UNICEF He was also Ambassador to Iraq, Indonesia and Belgium earlier in his career.

He was a son of the tobacco merchant Hugo Scheltema (1890–1939).Nederland's Patriciaat 27 (1941), p. 242. He studied law and joined the diplomatic service in 1945, and was posted to China for several years.CS Scheltema-Hellingman, Correspondentie Hugo Scheltema tijdens zijn verblijf in China 1946–1947. The Hague, 2010.