NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO ACTING DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

Julian Braithwaite, the new Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Braithwaite had been serving as the United Kingdom’s Representative in Brussels, Permanent Representative to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union, since 2011. He served at 10 Downing Street as Head of the Libya Communications Team in 2011. From 2008 to 2011, he served as Director of Consular Services at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Mr. Braithwaite served in Washington as Counsellor for Global Issues from 2004 to 2008, and was Director of Communications at the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia from 2002 to 2004. He was a speech writer at 10 Downing Street from 2000 to 2002. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1994 and spent much of his early career dealing with the conflicts of the former Yugoslavia, first with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office during the war in Bosnia, with the United Nations at the end of the war in Croatia, in Belgrade in the run up to the conflict in Kosovo, on secondment in NATO during that conflict, and then with Lord Ashdown in Bosnia.

He is married with two children.


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