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

Gerard Corr, the new Permanent Representative of Ireland 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. Corr had been serving as Ambassador of Ireland to Egypt, accredited concurrently to Sudan, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, since 2006. He was Ireland’s Ambassador to South Africa, accredited concurrently to Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia and Zimbabwe, from 2003 to 2006.

A career diplomat, Mr. Corr has also served at the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations in New York from 1988 to 1992 as First Secretary, and from 2001 to 2003 as Deputy Permanent Representative. He has held various posts at Headquarters in Dublin.

Mr. Corr was born on 5 September 1950 in Drogheda Co. Louth. He has a BA in history and politics from the University College Dublin (1972).


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