NEW PERMANENT OBSERVER OF THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW ORGANIZATION PRESENTS LETTER OF NOMINATION TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

George Papadatos, the new Permanent Observer of the European Public Law Organization to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his letter of nomination to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Mr. Papadatos has been serving since 2015 as the Head of Delegation and Permanent Observer of the European Public Law Organization in Geneva to the International Labour Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the International Organization for Migration.

From 2007 to 2014, Mr. Papadatos was the Regional Coordinator for Western European Countries at the International Labour Organization, and he also served as Minister Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2007. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Papadatos was Minister Counsellor in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Greece, where he served, inter alia, as a roving ambassador to promote his country’s candidature to the Security Council. In 2005, he served as Vice-President and Rapporteur of the United Nations World Summit on Information Society held in Tunisia, and was a key contributor to the inaugural meeting of the International Governance Forum in Athens in 2006. Mr. Papadatos also served as Chairman of the Second Committee of the General Assembly and Vice President of the Economic and Social Council in 1995. He taught economics as an assistant professor at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Radford University in the United States from 1975 to 1980.

Mr. Papadatos holds a Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States; a Master's degree in economics from the University of Utah, United States; and a law degree from the University of Athens, Greece.



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