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James A. Sharkey

As Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, he chaired the Human Rights Committee and defended the leading role of the European Court of Human Rights.

Karen Wolstenholme

She served in Moscow, Düsseldorf, Dublin, Harare, Brussels and Wellington before being posted to The Hague in 2007 as deputy UK Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.


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Ajai Malhotra

Based on leaked American diplomatic cables, published by Wikileaks, it was reported that Ajai Malhotra was posted to the UN Mission, New York to counter the anti-US decisions taken by Nirupam Sen, then Permanent Representative of India, to the UN.

Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa

The 2009 conference featured special presentations from John Bolton, Former United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Gérard Prunier, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris; and Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, the authors of the award-winning book Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War.

Avner Less

From 1954 to 1968, he served in the Israeli foreign service as an attaché in New York City and Paris, as permanent representative of Israel to the annual conference of the UN Drug Commission in Geneva, and as a representative of Israel at Interpol.

Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards

The Conference was chaired by Willem Schurmann, the Dutch Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Oscar Schachter, a leading figure in international law who later taught at Columbia Law School and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, and served as the President of the American Society of International Law.

Cornell Law Review

William vanden Heuvel - former United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Ambassador to the European Office of the United Nations in Geneva.

Crystal Nix Hines

On July 9, 2013 President Obama announced his intent to nominate Ms. Nix-Hines as United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of Ambassador.

Foreign relations of Singapore

March 1981 – Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Tommy Koh, assumed the Presidency of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea.

Fourah Bay College

Shekou Touray - Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations

Francisco José Lloreda Mera

Being dually accredited, Lloreda had earlier presented his credentials as Permanent Representative of Colombia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at The Hague on Friday 6 June to Director General of the OPCW Rogelio Pfirter.

Frank M. Folsom

Frank Marion Folsom (14 May 1894, Sprague, Washington - 12 January 1970, New York City) was an electronics company executive and was a permanent representative of the Holy See.

Gordon Bilney

He served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the OECD from 1975 to 1978 and as the Australian High Commissioner to the West Indies from 1980 to 1982.

James W. Spain

James W. Spain (July 22, 1926 – January 2, 2008) was in the US Foreign Service with postings in Karachi, Islamabad, Istanbul, Ankara, Dar Es Salaam, and Colombo and four ambassadorships in Tanzania, Turkey, the United Nations (as deputy permanent representative), and Sri Lanka.

John Chambers

John Chambers Hughes (1891–1971), United States Permanent Representative and diplomat

John Zillman

From 1978 to 2004 he was Permanent Representative of Australia with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Liudmyla Skyrda

In 1988 Liudmyla Skyrda went to Vienna, where her husband – Ukrainian diplomat Yurii Kostenko hold rank of the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to International Organizations, soon he became the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of independent Ukraine in the Republic of Austria.

Malcolm Templeton

Malcolm Templeton (born 1924) is a former New Zealand Foreign Service officer, who held a number of senior positions, including that of permanent representative to the United Nations, and Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs under Secretary Merwyn Norrish.

Marlene Moses

She has served since 2005 as the current Nauruan Permanent Representative to the United Nations, with ambassadorial rank, having previously held consular responsibilities in Japan and New Zealand.

New Zealand and the United Nations

New Zealand Permanent Representative to the United Nations--Jim McLay

Nikolai Podgorny

In the post-war years Podgorny regained his old office of Deputy People's Commissar for Food Industry of the Ukrainian SSR, but was later appointed in 1946 as a Permanent Representative to the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

Phesheya Mbongeni Dlamini

Phesheya Mbongeni Dlamini (born 1 January 1966 in Lobamba) has been the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Swaziland to the United Nations since 8 September 2005.

Rajemison Rakotomaharo

Rakotomaharo was subsequently appointed as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, and he was accordingly replaced as First Vice-President of the Senate by Noël Rakotondramboa on July 2, 2008.

United States Ambassador to South Sudan

General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State; Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations; and Ambassador R. Barrie Walkley inaugurating the new U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan on Independence Day, July 9, 2011.

University of the Southern Caribbean

Menissa Rambally - 1997 - St. Lucia`s Permanent Representative to the United Nations 2012 -, Cabinet Minister, St. Lucia.

Yoshitsugu Tatekawa

From 1932-1933, he served as the Permanent Representative of the Japanese Army to the League of Nations.