NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CZECH REPUBLIC PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

Jan Kara, the new Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Kara had been serving as Director of the European Union General Affairs Department at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2011, with responsibility for the overall European Union policy, institutional affairs, policy coordination and European Union enlargement. He was Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Sweden from 2007 to 2011. He served as Director of the Department of the United Nations at the Ministry from 2004 to 2007, after joining it in 2003.

Mr. Kara served as Deputy Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations in New York from 1999 to 2003 and Director of the United Nations Department at the Ministry from 1997 to 1999.

At the beginning of his career, Mr. Kara was a research fellow at the Institute of Geography, Czechoslovak Academy of Science (1982 to 1989); and served as Deputy Head of the Department of Regional Geography there from 1989 to 1992. He has a degree in economic and social geography from the Faculty of Science at Charles University Prague (1977) and a PhD in economic geography from the same University (1985). He was born in 1953 and is married with two daughters.


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