NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF ALBANIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Sejdi Qerimaj, the new Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Qerimaj had been serving, since 2000, as a Deputy Administrator in the French Civil Service. From 1998 to 2000, he worked for MSL, a French import-export firm. He served as director of the International Centre for European Education, a non-governmental organization in Tirana, from 1997 to 1998. From 1995 to 1996, he was responsible for the continuing education of French professors at the National Institute for Pedagogical Research in Tirana. He served as the Secretary-General of the local government in Fierze, Albania, from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Qerimaj began his career as a French professor at the Fierze high school, where he worked from 1986 to 1992.

Mr. Qerimaj holds a degree in foreign languages from the University of Tirana in 1986, and received post-graduate degrees from the European Institute for International Studies in Nice in 1997 and from the University Robert Schuman, in History and International Relations, in 2001.

Born on 25 September 1960, Mr. Qerimaj is married with one child.

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