NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Emina Keco Isakovic, the new Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Keco Isakovic had been serving as Vice Dean for international cooperation at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo since 2006. Concurrently, she gave lectures at a number of universities and institutes, and attended various international conferences. She published a book on Challenges of Mass Media in Sarajevo in 2006. From 1985 to 1994, she held a number of academic posts. She is specialized in mass media and communication issues.

With a dual diplomatic/academic career, Ms. Keco Isakovic worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1994 to 2006. She served as Ambassador at Large in Sarajevo on the Stability Pact from 2004 to 2005; Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna from 2001 to 2004; and Ambassador to Austria in 1998, and concurrently, to the United Nations Office at Vienna, to the Czech Republic and to Slovakia.

Ms. Keco Isakovic has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Sarajevo (1983), and a number of other diplomas. She was born in Sarajevo in 1950. She is a widow and has two sons.


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